Victohali

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The Victohali

Late Antiquity who lived north of the Lower Danube. In Greek their name is Biktoa or Biktoloi. They were possibly a Germanic people, and it has been suggested that they were one of the tribes of the Vandals.[1]

They crossed the Danube with the Marcomanni and Quadi during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161–180). According to the chapters attributed to "Julius Capitolinus" in the unreliable Historia Augusta:

. . . now not only were the Victuali and Marcomanni throwing everything into confusion, but other tribes, who had been driven on by the more distant barbarians and had retreated before them, were ready to attack Italy if not peaceably received.[2]

They also participated in the Marcomannic Wars, or, as Capitolinus calls it, the "German war" or "war of many nations".[3]

They participated in the barbarian conflict with the

Helvecones, and Nahanarvali
.

During the reign of

Limagantes) during a revolt and fled to the Victohali for protection, as Ammianus Marcellinus
writes:

And these native chiefs, losing all their wisdom in their fear, fled to the Victohali, whose settlements were at a great distance, thinking it better in the choice of evils to become subject to their protectors than slaves to their own slaves.[5]

Annotations

  1. ^
    Other spellings or renderings include: "Victovali", "Victoali", "Victufali", "Victuali", and "Victabali".

References

  1. ^ Doležal, Stanislav (2019), "Constantine's military operations against the Goths and the Sarmatians in 332 and 334", Eirene, 55
  2. ^ Capitolinus, Historia Augusta, Marcus Aurelius, 14:2.
  3. Peucini, and finally, the Costoboci
    ."
  4. ^ Eutropius, Breviarium historiae Romanae, VIII.ii.2.
  5. ^ Ammianus, Res Gestae Libri XXXI, XVII.xii.19.
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