astingi

Updated: May 9, 2025

Astigi, or Astingi, a people of Andalusia, in Spain Athens, one of the most ancient and noble cities of Greece, the capital of Attica. It produced some of the most distinguished statesmen, orators, and poets that the world ever saw, and its sculptors and painters have been rarely rivalled, never surpassed. No city on the earth has ever exercised an equal influence on the educated men of all ages.

Julius Caesar - De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries

They lived under the irregular aristocracy of their chieftains: but after they had received into their bosom the fugitive Vandals, who yielded to the pressure of the Gothic power, they seem to have chosen a king from that nation, and from the illustrious race of the Astingi, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the northern ocean.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2