Vascones
- a people in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the Pyrenees, in the modern Navarra, the parent stock of the Basques, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 22; Juv. 15, 93.—As adj.: Vascŏnis, e, of the Vascones: saltu, i.e. the Pyrenees, Paul. Nol. Carm. 10, 311. —
- A Vascŏnĭa, ae, f., the country of the Vascones, Paul. Nol. Carm. 10, 202.—
- B Vascŏnĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Vascones, Paul. Nol. Carm. 10, 217.
Guillelmo de Nozeriis servienti nostro armorum arcariam quas Vascones tenere solebant cum omnibus juribus et pertinentiis suis, prout per dictos Vascones seu gentes nostras alias explectari solent concedimus in hereditatem perpetuam tenendam a prædicto Guillelmo et heredibus suis ex recta linea descendentibus faciendo servitium consuetum.
VA´SCONES (Οὐάσκωνες, Strab. iii. pp. 155, 116; Οὐάσκονες, Ptol. 2.8. § § 10, 67), a people in the NE. part of Hispania Tarraconensis, between the Iberus and the Pyrenees, and stretching as far as the N. coast, in the present Navarre and Guipuscoa. Their name is preserved in the modern one of the Basques; although that people do not call themselves by that appellation, but Euscalduqac, their country Euscaleria, and their language Euscara. (Ford's Handbook of Spain, p. 557; cf. W. v. Humboldt, Untersuch. &100. p. 54.) They went into battle bareheaded. (Sil. Ital..) They passed among the Romans for skilful soothsayers. (Lamp. Alex. Sev. 27.) Their principal town was Pompelo (Pamplona). (Cf. Malte-brun, Moeurs et Usages des anciens Habitans d'Espagne, p. 309.)
[T.H.D]A powerful people on the northern coast of Hispania Tarraconensis, between the Iberus and the Pyrenees, in the modern Navarre and Guipuzco. Their chief towns were Pompelon and Calagurris. Their name is preserved in that of the Basques.