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MASSALIA (Ancient city) FRANCE
Albici a barbaric people, as Caesar calls them (B.C. i. 34), who inhabited
the mountains above Massilia (Marseille). They were employed on board their vessels
by the Massilienses to oppose Caesar's fleet, which was under the command of D.
Brutus, and they fought bravely in the sea-fight off Massilia, B.C. 49 (Caes.
B.C. i. 57). The name of this people in Strabo is Albieis and Albioikoi (p. 203);
for it does not seem probable that he means two peoples, and if he does mean two
tribes, they are both mountain tribes, and in the same mountain tract. D'Anville
infers that a place called Albiosc, which is about two leagues from Riez, in the
department of Basses Alpes, retains the traces of the name of this people.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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