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See also:SALYES (Gr. EaXvec: also SALLYES, SALYI, SALLUV77) , in See also:ancient See also:geography, a See also:people occupying the See also:plain S. of the Druentia (See also:Durance) between the See also: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 (See also: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 See also: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 See also:general name of See also:Salyes . They were defeated by See also:Quintus Opimius . In 125—124 hostilities See also: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 See also:chief See also:town, and founded near its ruins the See also:colony of See also:Aquae Sextiae (See also:Aix) .
See also:Part of their territory was handed over to the Massaliots
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