Brigantes
Βρίγαντες
Eth. Brigantes (Βρίγαντες).
1.
A people of Britain, the subjects of Cartismandua, reduced by Ostorius, occupants of the parts between the Humber and Tyne. (Tac. Ann. 12.32, Hist. 3.45, Agr. 17; Ptol. 2.3.16.)
2.
Of Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy (2.2.7) as the most south-eastern Hibernians: their probable locality being the county Kilkenny. [R.G.L]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.