Vertamocorii (Cisalpina)

The Gaulish ethnonym Vertamo-corii is generally translated as 'those with the superior host' or 'the excellent troops', from uertamos ('superior; summit') attached to corios ('army').^[1][2] Alternately, it could mean 'troops from the summit'.^[1]

According to Cato, the Vertamocorii who founded Novara were Ligurians, a view rejected by Pliny (1st c. AD), who classifies them as Gauls.^[3]

Novara (founded) by the Vertamocorii, that are from the Vocontii, and not, as believed Cato, Ligurians, ...^[4]