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The Lacetani were an ancient Iberian (pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken an Iberian language. There remains some doubt whether their naming is not a corruption of either Laietani or Iacetani, the names of two neighboring peoples. Ptolemy located the towns of Aeso/Isona (Guissona) and Setelsis/Selensis (Solsona) among those in a territory, of the Lacetani or the Iacetani. Pliny the elder listed the people as a tributary of Rome in his geographical description of Hispania Citerior. Livy described the location as a district at the foot of the Pyrenees, and north of the river Ebro.
The name is mentioned by some Roman period writers. Surviving mentions in Livy begin the context of the early stages of the Second Punic War, first with the Carthaginian occupation of Lacetania. Secondly, a battle is described and placed shortly after Scipio Africanus's arrival in Hispania in 215 BCE; it tells that Roman forces defeated a Lacetani rescue force, on its way to a besieged Ausetanian city, after Hasdrubal the Carthaginian instigated the Ilergetes to into rebellion and these two peoples had joined. On a later stage of the war, the Lacetani are said to have taken part in the rebellion under Indibilis and Mandonius, who on in this point the text presents as Lacetani rather than Ilergetes, Finally Livy writes of their part in the Iberian revolt of 197-195 BCE, and an attack that Cato the elder led on their city with Suessetani auxiliaries on his side. Incidentally, they are described: "The Lacetani, a
remote and forest-dwelling race, were kept under arms, partly by their native savageness, partly by their consciousness of having pillaged the allies in sudden raids while the consul and the army were engaged in the campaign in Turdetania." Plutarch commented on the latter event too.
Sallust's Histories has Lacetania as a territory that Pompey claimed to have recovered from Sertorius in 76 BCE. Cassius Dio adds that when Sextus Pompey fled from Hispania Baetica, after the Battle of Munda in Caesar's Civil War, he was able to hide in Lacetania as the people there remembered his father Pompey favorably.
Pliny noted it is a region of abundant vines, that allow the production of second-rate wine. Martial in his epigrams also recalled Laletanian or Lacetanian as a kind of cheap wine.




See also


Iberians
Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula




References



Ángel Montenegro et alii, Historia de España 2 - colonizaciones y formación de los pueblos prerromanos (1200-218 a.C), Editorial Gredos, Madrid (1989) ISBN 84-249-1386-8




External links


"Places: 246458 (Lacetani)". Pleiades.
Lacetans
Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)

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• Lacetani
• Catalonia
• Laietani
• List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
• Iberians
• List of wars involving Spain
• Vascones
• Contestani
• History of the territorial organization of Spain
• Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula