Ligures Baebiani

In ancient geography, the Ligures Baebiani were a settlement of

.

History

The towns of Taurasia (not to be confused with modern Taurasi)^[1] and Cisauna in Samnium had been captured in 298 BC by the consul L. Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, and the territory of the former remained Roman state domain (ager publicus). In 180 BC, 47,000 Ligurians, the Ligures Apuani, a people repeatedly noted by Livy as the most formidable of the Ligurian tribes who controlled the region from the coastal neighborhoods of Luna to Tuscany's Apuan Alps and Apennine mountains, including women and children, were forcibly deported to this district in southern Italy. Two settlements were formed, the Ligures Baebiani and the Ligures Corneliani, taking their names from the consuls of 181 BC who oversaw their deportation, M. Baebius Tamphilus and P. Cornelius Cethegus.

Location and archaeology

The site of the former town lies 15 miles north of

, and the annual interest probably at 5%, i.e. 20,090 sesterces. The site of the other settlement, that of the Ligures Corneliani is unknown.

See Theodor Mommsen in Corp. Inscr. Lat. ix. (Berlin, 1883), 125 sqq.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ligures Baebiani". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 680.

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