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Headword: *sh/nwnes
Adler number: sigma,328
Translated headword: Senones
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The Celts, those known as Germans.
Greek Original:
*sh/nwnes: oi( *keltoi/, oi( lego/menoi *germanoi/.
Notes:
cf. under kappa 1307.
'A Gallic tribe from a parent stock that in Caesar's time inhabited the Seine basin' (T.W. Potter in OCD4 s.v.). For their mention in Greek sources see e.g. Polybius 2.17.8, 2.19.10, 2.20.1, 2.21.7; Diodorus Siculus 14.113.3 (with a *se/nnwnes spelling).
Barrington Atlas map 42 grids D1/E1.
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 9 September 2003@01:10:22.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (cosmetics, added keywords, set status) on 9 September 2003@01:36:43.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 9 September 2003@03:28:55.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 17 August 2011@08:42:33.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 9 August 2014@10:28:49.

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