BRINIA´TES
Eth.
BRINIA´TES a Ligurian tribe, known to us only from a passage in Livy (
41.19), from which we learn that they dwelt beyond (i. e. to the N. of) the Apennines.
But the exact sense in which he uses this expression is uncertain: and there seems some reason to believe that the upper valley of the
Vara (a confluent of the
Magra) was the abode of the Briniates.
The name of
Brugnato, a small town in this district, seems to preserve some trace of the ancient appellation. (Walckenaer,
Géogr. des Gaules, vol. i. p. 158.)
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