Ausci


The Ausci were an Aquitani pre-Roman tribe settled in what today is southwestern France, in the city of Elimberrum or Eliberris, present-day Auch in the French department of Gers. The Ausci spoke a form or dialect of the Aquitanian language, a precursor of the Basque language.

Name

They are mentioned as Ausci by Caesar, Pliny and Pomponius Mela, and as Au̓skíois by Strabo.