CAENICENSES
Eth.
CAENICENSES a people in Gallia Narbonensis, an “oppidum Latinum,” as Pliny (
3.4) calls them; probably on the river Caenus of Ptolemy, which he places between the eastern mouth of the Rhone and Massilia (
Marseille).
There are no means of fixing the position of the Caenus, which may be the river of
Aix that flows into the
Etang de Berre, or some of the other streams that flow into the same
étang. Some would have it to be the canal and
étang of
Ligagnan. It has been suggested that the name in Pliny should be Caenienses.
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