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Monesi

Eth. Monesi one of the many peoples of Aquitania enumerated by Pliny, who places them below the Saltus Pyrenaeus (4.19). The name seems to be preserved in that of Moneins, which is between Pons and Navarreins, where it is said that there are traces of Roman camps. Moneins is in the department of Basses Pyrénées.

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.