Vennones
Name
They are mentioned as Ouénnōnes (Οὐέννωνες) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),Strabo. Geōgraphiká, 4:6:6, 4:6:9. as Vennonenses (var. -{{lang|la|onetes}}) by Pliny (1st c. AD),Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:135. and as Ouénnōnetes (Οὐέννωνετες) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD).Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:12:2.{{Harvnb|Falileyev|2010}}, s.v. Vennon(et)es.
The etymology of the name remains obscure. If Celtic, and not Rhaetic, it can be derived from the root {{lang|mis|ueno}}- ('friend'), with a sound shift -n- > -nn- attested in other cases (e.g. Vena / Venna),{{Sfn|Evans|1967|p=279}} or else from to {{lang|mis|uenno}}- (< *{{lang|mis|uegno}}-), meaning 'chariot'.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=127}}
Geography
The Vennones dwelled in the northern Alps, between Chur and Lake Constance.{{Sfn|Frei-Stolba|2011}} Their territory was located north of the Calucones, west of the Estiones, Focunates and Genaunes, south of the Brigantii.{{harvnb|Talbert|2000}}, Map 19: Raetia.
Pliny described the Vennones and Sarunetes as "Rhaetian tribes living near the sources of the river Rhine".
History
They were subjugated by the Roman forces of Publius Silius Nerva in 16 BC.{{Sfn|Frei-Stolba|2011}}
The Vennonetes appear as the third tribe in the inscription on the Tropaeum Alpium. In the secondary tradition of the text by Pliny the Elder their position in the list was exchanged with the Venostes and the Vennonetes appear as the fourth tribe.Jules Formigé: [https://www.persee.fr/doc/galia_0016-4119_1955_num_13_1_1432 La dédicace du Trophée des Alpes (La Turbie).] In: Gallia. Vol. 13, 1955, No. 1, p. 101—102.
References
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= Primary sources =
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- {{Cite book|last=Pliny|title=Natural History|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1938|isbn=978-0674993648|series=Loeb Classical Library|translator-last=Rackham|translator-first=H.|author-link=Pliny the Elder}}
- {{Cite book|last=Strabo|title=Geography|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1923|isbn=978-0674990562|series=Loeb Classical Library|translator-last=Jones|translator-first=Horace L.|author-link=Strabo}}
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= Bibliography =
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- {{Cite journal|last=Frei-Stolba|first=Regula|author-link=Regula Frei-Stolba|date=2011|title=Vennones|journal=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/024610/2011-06-15}}
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