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SENONES , in See also:

ancient See also:geography, a See also:Celtic See also:people of Gallia Celtica, who in See also:Caesar's See also:time inhabited the See also:district which now includes the departments of See also:Seine-et-See also:Marne, Loiret and See also:Yonne. From 53–51 B.C. they were engaged in hostilities with Caesar, brought about by their See also:expulsion of Cavarinus, whom he had appointed their See also:king. In the last-named See also:year a Senonian named Drappes threatened the Provincia, but was captured and starved himself to See also:death. From this time the Gallic Senones disappear from See also:history. In later times they were included in Gallia Lugdunensis. Their See also:chief towns were Agedincum (later Senones, whence See also:Sens), Metiosedum (See also:Melun; according to A. Holder, See also:Meudon), and Vellaunodunum (site uncertain). See Caesar, See also:Bell. See also:Gall. v. 54, vii. 75, viii. 30, 44; T.

R. See also:

Holmes, Caesar's See also:Conquest of See also:Gaul (1899), pp. 482-483, 755-766, 819; A. Holder, Altceltischer Sprachschatz, ii. (1904). More important historically was a See also:branch of the above (called lbaaves, Senones, by See also:Polybius), who about 400 B.C. made their way over the See also:Alps and, having driven out the Umbrians, settled on the See also:east See also:coast of See also:Italy from See also:Ariminum to See also:Ancona, in the so-called ager Gallicus, and founded the See also:town of Sena Gallica (Sinigaglia), which became their See also:capital. In 391 they invaded See also:Etruria and besieged See also:Clusium. The Clusines appealed to See also:Rome, whose intervention, accompanied by a violation of the See also:law of nations, led to See also:war, the defeat of the See also:Romans at the See also:Allia (18th of See also:July 390) and the See also:capture of Rome. For more than too years the Senones were engaged in hostilities with the Romans, until they were finally subdued (283) by P. See also:Cornelius See also:Dolabella and driven out of their territory. Nothing more is heard of them in Italy. It, is probable that they formed See also:part of the bands of Gauls who spread themselves over the countries by the See also:Danube, See also:Macedonia and See also:Asia See also:Minor.

A See also:

Roman See also:colony was established at Sena, called Sena Gallica to distinguish it from Sena Julia (See also:Siena) in Etruria. For ancient authorities see A. Holder as above; on the subjugation of the Senones by the Romans, See also:Mommsen, Hist. of Rome (Eng. trans.), bk. ii. ch. vii.

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