Segobrigii
They are mentioned in the founding myth of Massalia, recounted by the Greek philosopher Aristotle and by Pompeius Trogus, a Gallo-Roman writer who lived among the nearby Vocontii in the 1st century BC.
600 BC, the legend tells how the daughter of the Segobrigian king Nannus chose a Phocaean sailor as her husband during her own wedding, the two of them eventually founding the colony of Massalia.
[7] Around 600 BC, Greek settlers from the city of Phocaea, in western Anatolia, founded the colony of Massalia at the site of Lacydon, corresponding to the present-day Old Port of Marseille.
They were respected as foreigners bound by ties of hospitality with the local ruler, which implied that these indigenous people had freedom of movement within the colony and were welcomed during some religious festivals.
[12] Nannus was succeeded by his son Comanus who, fearing the expansionist policy of the Phocaeans, gave up the hospitality relation established by his father and waged war on the Greek colony ca.
390–387 BC, a Segobrigian prince named Catumandus besieged the city, then reportedly abandoned his project after seeing the goddess Minerva in a dream and decided to make peace with the Massaliotes.
[14][16] Jean Brunel proposed that this tale, with the divine intervention and the parallel with the sack of Rome, may have created to hide the fact that Massalia had been taken by the Segobrigii and had to pay a tribute to them.
[21] Both Trogus' and Aristotle's accounts of the legendary foundation of Massalia mention a peculiar custom whereby the daughter of the local king chooses her husband during her own wedding, by presenting him a bowl filled with water or wine.
The wedding was organized as follows: After the meal, the girl had to come in and offer a bowl full of wine mixed with water to whichever suitor there she wanted, and whoever she gave it to would be her bridegroom.
When the girl entered the room, she gave the bowl, either by accident or for some other reason, to Euxenus; her name was Petta.It so happened that on that day the king was engaged in arranging the marriage of his daughter Gyptis: in accordance with the custom of the tribe, he was preparing to give her to be married to a son-in-law chosen at a banquet.
