Pleumoxii
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The Pleumoxii or Pleumosii were a small Belgic tribe living in Gallia Belgica during the Iron Age. They were clients of the most powerful Nervii.
They are attested as Pleumoxii by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC).[1][2]
Early modern humanists used Pleumosia and Pleumosii to refer respectively to Flanders and the Flemish.[3] The poem Pleumosia, composed in 1620 by Elias Gifford about the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600), applies the name Pleumosia to the region in which the battle was fought.[3] The Greek form Pleumósioi (Πλευμοσίοι) appears in the Greek translation of De Bello Gallico, first printed alongside the Latin text in 1606.[4] This usage persisted into the 19th century, when some translations, such as that of William Duncan, rendered Pleumoxii as "Pleumosians".[5]
