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INSUBRES ("Ivoµ(3pes, "Ivvouf pot)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 656 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INSUBRES ("Ivoµ(3pes, "Ivvouf pot)  , a See also:Celtic See also:people of upper See also:Italy, the most powerful in Gallia Transpadana, inhabiting the See also:country between the See also:Adda, the Ticinus and the See also:Alps . According to See also:Livy (v . 34) they appear to have been a See also:branch of the See also:Aedui in Gallia Transalpina, though others assume that they were Umbrians, a view to some extent supported by the See also:form Is-ombr-es . Livy states that Bellovesus and his Gauls, having crossed the Alps and defeated the Etruscans near the Ticinus, found themselves in the territory of the See also:Insubres (also the name of a pagus of the Aedui) . Here they built a See also:city and called it See also:Mediolanum (See also:Milan), after the name of a See also:village in their See also:home in Gallia Transalpina . The name Insubres thus appears applied to the inhabitants (1) of the Aeduan pagus, (2) of the territory in Gallia Transpadana occupied by Bellovesus, (3) to the founders of Mediolanum . From 222 to 195 B.C. the Insubres were frequently at See also:war with the See also:Romans . In 222 they were de- feated at See also:Clastidium by M . See also:Claudius See also:Marcellus, who gained the spolia opima by slaying with his own See also:hand their See also:king Viridomarus (Virdumarus), and in 194 they were finally subdued by L . See also:Valerius See also:Flaccus . See H . Nissen, Italische Landeskunde (1902) H .

179; A . Holder, Altkeltischer Sprachschatz, ii . (1904) .

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