Agesinates
The Agesinates or Cambolectri Agessinates were an ancient Celtic tribe living in Gallia Aquitania during the Roman period.
Name
They are mentioned as Cambolectri Agessinates by Pliny.The ethnic name Cambolectri derives from the Gaulish stem cambo-. The second element -lectri is also attested in a Celtic personal name.
Pliny also refers to another group of Cambolectri that was "surnamed Atlantici", which he locates in Gallia Narbonensis. It is unclear whether this designation refers to another faction of the same people, implying a division between the two provinces, or to a distinct people altogether. Michel Molin has suggested that this double mention may reflect a border civitas that either belonged alternately to eatch province, or was divided between them, as was the case with the Ruteni.
Geography
Their exact location remains uncertain. Pliny places them in Gallia Aquitania, alongside the Vasates and Sennates.| Text | Translation | Reference |
| Aquitanicae sunt Vassei, Sennates, Cambolectri Agessinates. Pictonibus iuncti autem Bituriges liberi qui Cubi appellantur | To Aquitanian Gaul belong the Vassei, Sennates and the Cambolectri Agessinates. Joining on to the Pictones are the Bituriges called Cubi | Pliny, |
Pierre-Marie Duval proposed situating the territory of the Cambolectri Agessinates on the lower or middle Garonne river. Duval maintains that placing the Agessinates near the Pictones, with Aizenai as their chief town, as proposed by Alfred Holder, would require an implausible syntactic linkage in Pliny's text. He further notes that the suffix -ates, which is particularly frequent in Aquitania compared to the rest of Gaul, more more plausibly supports this location than an attribution north of the Garonne.
Secondary sources
Category:Gauls