Cincibil in pohod Gaja Kasija Longina proti Makedoniji

Livy’s passage about the ill-fated march, that C. Cassius Longinus (consul in 171 BC) planned from Aquileia to Macedonia, is analysed and commented upon. Longinus was recalled by the Senate, and on his way back his army plundered the lands of the Iapodes, Carni, Histri, and Alpine peoples, the allies of the king of the transalpine Celts, Cincibilus, taking several thousand slaves. It is proposed that the residence of Cincibilus might have been at Celeia. The identity of the transalpine Celts is discussed (the Norici or more probably the Taurisci?), as well as the identity of the Alpini populi, on whom some light may be shed by Pliny’s mention of the Alpine peoples in the hinterland of the Histri and Tergeste.Članek je komentar k Livijevi epizodi o neuspelem pohodu Gaja Kasija Longina (konzul leta 171 pr. Kr.), ki je z vojsko krenil iz Akvileje proti Makedoniji. Senat ga je odpoklical, še preden je prodrl v osrčje Ilirika, na povratku pa je njegova vojska opustošila ozemlja Japodov, Histrov, Karnov in alpskih ljudstev, zaveznikov kralja Keltov onkraj Alp, Cincibila, ter odgnala v sužnost več tisoč ljudi. Cincibilova prestolnica bi utegnila biti v Celeji, Kelti onstran Alp pa bi morda utegnili biti Noriki oz. verjetneje Tavriski. Ni povsem jasno, kdo so bili Alpini populi v zavezništvu s Cincibilom; zanimivo je, da tudi Plinij v zaledju Histrov in Tergesta omenja alpska ljudstva, ki jih našteva po imenih