Genauni

They are mentioned as Genaunos by Horace (1st c. BC),^[1] as Genaúnōn (Γεναύνων) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),^[2] and as Genaunes by Pliny (1st c. AD).^[3]

The ethnic name Genauni is a latinized form of Gaulish *Genaunoi (sing. Genaunos), which can be translated 'the natives'. It stems from an earlier form *Géno-mnoi, based on the stem gen(o)- ('descendants, family').^[4]

The Genauni lived in the eastern valley of the Inn river, in Raetia.^[5][6] Their territory was located north of the Focunates, east of the Breuni, south of the Estiones, Licates and Cosuanetes, west of the Vennones.^[7]

They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium.^[3]