The Trumpilini were an ancient tribe that settled in Val Trompia, one of three main valleys in the Province of Brescia in Northern Italy.
Roman writer Pliny the Elder, referring to Origines by Cato the Elder, states that the Trumpilini were one of three lineages of the Euganei.[1]
The Tropaeum Alpium in present-day La Turbie (built c. 7 BC) mentions the Trumpilini among the names of peoples that have been subjugated by the Empire in c. 16 BC during the Roman conquest of Rhetia and the Alps.[2] A secondary tradition of Pliny contains a prescriber: Triumpilini.[3]
Literature
[edit]- Ernest George Hardy: Roman Laws and Charters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1912, p. 120.
References
[edit]- ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 3, 133–134: „Verso deinde in Italiam pectore alpium Latini iuris Euganeae gentes, quarum oppida XXXIIII enumerat Cato. ex iis Trumplini, venalis cum agris suis populus, dein Camunni conpluresque similes finitimis adtributi municipis ex iis Trumplini, agris venalis cum suis populus, dein Camunni conpluresque parabolas finitimis adtributi municipis“.
- ^ CIL V, 07817; Jaroslav Šašel: Zur Erklärung der Inschrift am Tropaeum Alpium (Plin. nat. III,136-137,CIL V 7871). In: Ziva antika. Volume 22, 1972, p. 135–144.
- ^ Jules Formigé: La dédicace du Trophée des Alpes (La Turbie). In: Gallia. Volume 13, 1955, Nr. 1, p. 101 f.