TheAdunicates were a smallGallic tribe dwelling in the upperDurance valley during theRoman era.
They are mentioned asAdunicates byPliny (1st c. AD).[1]
The etymology of the name is unclear. If Celtic, it may be interpreted as ahaplology (loss of syllable) ofGaulish *Andedunicates, based on the intensifying prefixande-. In this view, it could be compared to the personal namesAndedunis andAtedunus ('big fort').[2]
The Adunicates lived in the upperDurance valley.[3] They are mentioned by Pliny as living near theSuetrii and theQuariates, north of theOxybii andLigauni.[4]
On the coast too are Athenopolis of the Massilians, Fréjus, a colony of the eighth legion, called Pacensis and Classica, a river named Argenteus, the district of the Oxubii and Ligauni, beyond whom come the Suebri, Quariates and Adunicates.
— Pliny 1938,Naturalis Historia,3.35.
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