Stoeni
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The Stoeni (also Stoni or Styni) were a Ligurian tribe living near Lake Garda during the Iron Age.
They are mentioned as Styni by Livy (late 1st c. BC),[1] as Stoni by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),[2] and as Stoeni by Pliny (1st c. AD) and on the Fasti Triumphales Capitolini (early 2nd c. BC).[3][4][5]
On the Fasti Triumphales Capitolini (117 BC), they are described as Ligurian Stoeni, whereas Orosius designates them as Gauls.[6]
F. Rubat Borel has proposed to identify them with the Soti (which he emends to Sotani) mentioned by Pliny. According to him, this would place them within a series of wars fought in the Rhône valley and the western Alps beginning in 123 BC.[7]