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SALYES (Gr. EaXvec: also SALLYES, SALYI, SALLUV77) , in See also: ancient geography, a See also: people occupying the plain S. of the Druentia (See also: Durance) between the Rhone and the See also: Alps
.
According to See also: Strabo (iv. p
.
203) the older Greeks called them Ligyes, and their territory Ligystike
.
By some authorities they were considered a mixed See also: race of Galli and Ligurians (hence Celtoligyes); by others a purely See also: Celtic people, who subjugated the Ligures in the Provincia
.
They are said to have been the first transalpine people subdued by the See also: Romans (Florus iii
.
2)
.
In 154 B.C. the inhabitants of Massilia, who had been connected with the Romans by ties of friendship since the second Punic war, appealed for aid against the Oxybii and Decietes (or Deciates)
.
These people, called by See also: Livy (Epic
.
47) " transalpine Ligurianh," were perhaps two smaller tribes included under the general name of Salyes
.
They were defeated by See also: Quintus Opimius
.
In 125—124 hostilities broke out between the Romans and the Salyes from the same cause
.
The successful operations of See also: Marcus Fulvius See also: Flaccus were continued by Gains Sextius Calvinus (123—122), who definitely subdued the Salyes, destroyed their chief See also: town, and founded near its ruins the colony of See also: Aquae Sextiae (See also: Aix)
.
See also: Part of their territory was handed over to the Massaliots
.
Their See also: king, Tutomotulus (or Teutomalius), took
See also: refuge with the Allobroges
.
From this See also: time the Salyes practically disappear from See also: history
.
Among other important See also: Roman towns in their territory may bementioned Tarusco or Tarasco (See also: Tarascon), Arelate (See also: Arles), Glanum (St Remy) and Ernaginum (St See also: Gabriel)
.
For ancient authorities see A
.
Holder, Altceltischer Sprachschatz,
ii
.
(1904)
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