ONOBRISATES
Eth.
ONOBRISATES a people of Aquitania, as the name stands in the common texts of Pliny (
4.19); who has “Onobrisates, Belendi, Saltus Pyrenaeus.” D'Anville (
Notice, &c.) ingeniously supposes that Onobrisates ought to be Onobusates, which is the least possible correction; and he thinks that he discovers the old name in the modern
Nébousan, the name of a canton on the left side of the
Neste towards the lower part of its course. The
Neste is one of the branches of the
Garonne, and rises in the Pyrenees.
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