The Romans on the Riviera and the Rhone : a sketch of the conquest of Liguria and the Roman Province . the Volcae. This branch of the Celtic family,from whose name Volcae our word Welsh is derived(as I am reminded by my friend Professor Rhys ofOxford), was the latest to separate itself from theGermans, amongst whom it had found a temporarydomicile before crossing the Rhine. The establishment of the Volcae in the plains be-tween the Rhone and the Pyrenees, occupied previouslymainly by an Iberian population, may be fixed ap-proximately at 400 , but nothing is known of thecircumstances under
The Romans on the Riviera and the Rhone : a sketch of the conquest of Liguria and the Roman Province . the Volcae. This branch of the Celtic family,from whose name Volcae our word Welsh is derived(as I am reminded by my friend Professor Rhys ofOxford), was the latest to separate itself from theGermans, amongst whom it had found a temporarydomicile before crossing the Rhine. The establishment of the Volcae in the plains be-tween the Rhone and the Pyrenees, occupied previouslymainly by an Iberian population, may be fixed ap-proximately at 400 , but nothing is known of thecircumstances under which it was effectuated. TheVolcae were divided into two branches—Arecomici andTectosages. The Arecomici, who appear to have beenearly brought under the civilizing influence of theirneighbours the Greeks of Marseilles, were the foundersof the great Celtic emporium at Narbonne, which, longbefore Roman intervention in Gaul, became the principalmart of exchange for native products brought down tothe coast from the interior, including tin from Britain. We learn from Strabo (p. 190) that before the. CHAP. I. 13 date of the Roman conquest of Provence ( 122), theover-lordship of the Arverni extended to Narbonne andthe Mediterranean sea-board. Thus the Volcae wereclients of the Arverni. While, on the right bank of theRhone, the Celtic confederation of Volcae displaced orenslaved the former Iberian population about 400,the Ligurian Salyes, or Salluvii, succeeded to the lastin barring Celtic access to the Mediterranean on theleft bank. Thus, the country—now known as Provence—lyingbetween the Rhone, the Durance, the Alps and theMediterranean, although officially regarded by theRomans as part of Gallia Transalpina, was neveroccupied nor conquered by Gauls. The bulk of thepopulation of this little-known south-eastern corner ofFrance has always remained Ligurian, just as in itssouth-western corner the Iberians have never been dis-lodged from Aquitania. To this day, the south-
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