Santŏnes
or Santŏni. A powerful people in Gallia Aquitanica, dwelling on the coast of the ocean, north of the Garumna (Garonne). Under the Romans they were a free people. Their chief town was Mediolanum, afterwards Santones (Saintes) (B. G. i. 10).
Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.
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