They are mentioned as R̔oukántioi (Ῥουκάντιοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),[1] as Rucinates (var.
[5] Alternatively, Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel has proposed to derive the name from a form *roukkina (cf.
In this view, the variant R̔oukántioi handed down by Strabo could be explained as 'those who wear a roukka'.
Their territory was located north of the Catenates, east of the Raetovarii, south of the Iuthungi.
[8] They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium.