Aneuniates
Gallic tribe
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The Aneuniates (Gaulish: *Aneuniatis) were a small Gallic tribe dwelling near Lake Como, around present-day Samolaco, during the Roman period.
Name
They are mentioned Aneuniates on an inscription dated to the 2nd century AD and found in Gera Lario.[1][2]
The ethnonym Aneuniates can be derived from the Gaulish aneun- ('inspired') attached to the suffix -ates ('belonging to'), although the etymology of the first element remains unclear.[3][2] Xavier Delamarre has proposed to posit a deity named *Aneunos ('The Inspired'), with Aneuniates as 'those of *Aneunos'.[4]
