Gaius Julius Vercondaridubnus
Gaius Julius Vercondaridubnus (Rhone rivers. The dating of the inauguration to 12 would connect it to the year in which Augustus assumed the office of pontifex maximus.
The
Kalends of the month newly renamed after him, and in the Celtic calendar also a significant date, later celebrated as Lughnasadh.[citation needed
]
In addition to his priesthood of the
Gallia Comata
.
The name Gaius Julius Vercondaridubnus is a hybrid of
intensive.[5] The element dari- refers to a violent emotion such as rage. Dubn- is a relatively common Celtic element meaning “dark, shadowy,” perhaps “hidden, secret” and hence “deep, profound”; as a noun, dubnos can mean “the Deep World,” i.e., the underworld. Since Vercondaridubnus was a priest, this meaning of dubnos may apply.[6]
In the 1st century CE, the successors of Vercondaridubnus included
Santones.[7]
References
- ^ His praenomen is offered as Caius or abbreviated (as C.) by some modern sources.
- Ronald Mellor, "The Goddess Roma," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.17.2, p. 986 online.
- ^ Duncan Fishwick, "The Imperial Cult in the Latin West: Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire", volume 1, (1991), p. 101., & vol 3, (2002), 1, pp 12-13.
- ^ J.F. Drinkwater, “The Rise and Fall of the Gallic Julii: Aspects of the Development of the Aristocracy of the Three Gauls under the Early Empire,” Latomus 37 (1978) 817–850.
- prepositioncum.
- ^ Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd ed. (Paris: Éditions Errance, 2003), pp. 121–122, 136, 151, 314.
- ^ C. Goudineau, "Gaul," in The Cambridge Ancient History (Cambridge University Press, 1996, reprinted 2004), p. 500 online.