The Auscii or Ausci were an Aquitani tribe dwelling around present-day Auch during the Iron Age.
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Alongside the Tarbelli, they were one of the most powerful peoples of Aquitania. [1]
The Auscii or Ausci were an Aquitani tribe dwelling around present-day Auch during the Iron Age.
Alongside the Tarbelli, they were one of the most powerful peoples of Aquitania. [1]
They are mentioned as Ausci by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), Pliny (1st c. AD) and Pomponius Mela (mid-1st c. AD), [2] [3] [4] and as Au̓skíois (Αὐσκίοις) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD). [5] [6]
The ethnonym Auscii may be related to the prefix eusk-, meaning 'Basque' in the Basque language ( euskara ). [7]
The city of Auch, attested as civitas Auscius in the early 4th century AD, is named after the tribe. [8]
Their territory was located north of the Onobrisates, west of the Cambolectri and Volcae Tectosages, south of the Lactorates, west of the Atures. [9]
The chief town of the Auscii was known as Elimberrum (modern Auch), whose name can be compared to the Basque ili-berri ('new town'). [10]
It is believed that the Auscii spoke a form or dialect of the Aquitanian language, a precursor of the Basque language. [11]
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