Ligures

thumb| The Ligures or Ligurians (Latin: Ligures, singular Ligus or Ligur; Ancient Greek: Λίγυες, Lígues) were an ancient people of the north-western Mediterranean, centred on north-western Italy and extending along the neighbouring coast of south-eastern Gaul. Their name was among the oldest mentioned by ancient writers, being attested from the archaic Greek geographers down to the Roman conquest. Ligurian proverbs Quotes about the Ligures Liguras, imis Alpium iugis adhaerentis inter Varum et Magram flumen inplicitosque dumis silvestribus, maior aliquanto labor erat invenire quam vincere. Tuti locis et fuga, durum atque velox genus, ex occasione latrocinia magis quam bella faciebant. Itaque cum diu multumque eluderent Saluvii, Deciates, Oxubii, Euburiates, Ingauni tandem Fulvius latebras eorum igni saepsit, Baebius in plana deduxit. Postumius ita exarmavit, ut vix reliquerit ferrum quo terra coleretur. The Ligurians, buried at the foot of the Alps, between the Var and the Macra, in a country bristling with underwood, were more difficult to find than to conquer — an agile and indefatigable people, more given to rapine than to war, and trusting in the rapidity of their flight and the remoteness of their lurking-places. All these wild mountain tribes — the Salyi, the Deciates, the Euburiates, the Oxybii, the Ingauni — long escaped the Roman arms. At last, the consul Fulvius burnt their fastnesses, Bæbius forced them into the plain, and Posthumius disarmed them, leaving them scarcely iron wherewith to till their fields. (BC 238–233) L. Annaeus Florus, Epitome of Roman History, I.xix.4–5. Latin: Edward Seymour Forster, ed., L. Annaeus Florus · Cornelius Nepos, LCL (1929), p. 90. English: Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith (New York, 1882), vol. i, pp. 37-38 External links Category:History of Italy Category:History of France