Agesinates
ancient tribe
The Agesinates or Cambolectri Agessinates were an ancient Celtic tribe living in Gallia Aquitania during the Roman period.
Name
They are mentioned as Cambolectri Agessinates by Pliny (1st c. AD).
The ethnic name Cambolectri derives from the Gaulish stem cambo- ('curve, meander'). The second element -lectri is also attested in a Celtic personal name (Lictoria, Lectri).
Pliny also refers to another group of Cambolectri that was "surnamed Atlantici" (Cambolectri qui Atlantici cognominantur), which he locates in Gallia Narbonensis. It is unclear whether this designation refers to another faction of the same people, implying a division between the two provinces, or to a distinct people altogether. Michel Molin has suggested that this double mention may reflect a border civitas that either belonged alternately to eatch province, or was divided between them, as was the case with the Ruteni.
Geography
Their exact location remains uncertain. Pliny places them in Gallia Aquitania, alongside the Vasates (Vassei) and Sennates.
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