I telieve that before the senones arrived in the Marche region there were a people called the picentes inhabiting the region.
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I telieve that before the senones arrived in the Marche region there were a people called the picentes inhabiting the region.
That all depends on the precise Geography;
But in the broadest sense of Picenum - Livius (V/XXXV) records that the Senones occupied the lands from the Utis (Montone) to the Aesis; and Polybius (II/XXI) includes the Ager Gallicus as part of Picenum;
Silius Italicus (VIII/440-445) records that Picenum was once inhabited by Pelasgians and that Aesis was one of their leader;
Plinius (III/XVIII-XIX) records that the earliest inhabitants were Siculi and Liburnians but the Librunians are placed further south at Truentum and Praetutia;
Other peoples mentioned in this district before the Gauls are the Umbrians by Strabo (V/IV) and Plinius (III/XIX);
I think its a question of Siculi/Pelasgian and Liburnian tending more towards Siculi/Pelasgian than Liburnian;
The Siculi and Pelasgians could go hand in hand acc. to Thucydides (VI/XVIII) and would explain it being def. not Indo-European;
Liburnians were described as Illyrians and should than be Indo-European (but it isnt) and the Liburnians are placed to far south from the Aesis at Truentum;
Plenty of evidence pointing to the Siculi (Sicels) being indo-european.