Conii
Κούνεοι
Eth. Conii or CUNEI (Eth. Κούνεοι, Eth. Appian, Hisp. 57; Κόνιοι, Plb. 10.7.5), a people in the S. of Lusitania, W. of the Pillars of Hercules and of Baetica, with a capital city called Conistorgis or Conistorsis. (Strab. iii. p.141.) They may perhaps be identified with the Κυνήσιοι, whom Herodotus makes the westernmost people of the whole earth (2.33, 4.49). They dwelt in that part of Lusitania which the Romans called CUNEUS a name appropriate to the shape of the land, and thus furnishing one of the many examples in which the etymological significance of a name coincides accidentally with its historical usage.
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.