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:''This article is about the early Irish population group. For the continental Germanic group, see Chauci.'' The Cauci (Καῦκοι) were a people of early Ireland, uniquely documented in Ptolemy's 2nd-century ''Geography'', which locates them roughly in the region of modern County Dublin and County Wicklow.〔Ptol. ''Geog''. 2.2.8 (ed. K. Müller (1883-1901 )); P. Freeman, ''Ireland and the Classical World'' (Austin, Texas, 2001), pp. 69, 78-80〕 ==Theories== From the early 19th century, comparative linguists, notably Lorenz Diefenbach, identified the Cauci with the Germanic Chauci of the Low Countries and north-western Germany, a parallel already drawn by earlier antiquarian scholarship.〔L. Diefenbach, ''Celtica. Sprachliche Documente zur Geschichte der Kelten'' (Stuttgart 1839-40) I, pp. 414-15〕 Proponents of this view also pointed to the fact that the Manapii (Μανάπιοι), who in Ptolemy's map border the Cauci to the south, likewise bear a name that is almost identical to that of another continental tribe, the Belgic Menapii in north-eastern Gaul. This correspondence appeared to testify to population movements between the two regions. The linguistic aspect of this hypothesis was most recently (1917) developed by Julius Pokorny,〔Julius Pokorny, "Spuren von Germanen im alten Irland vor der Wikingerzeit", ''Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie'' 11, 1917, 169-188 at 171〕 although the Cauci-Chauci association is not universally accepted.〔T. F. O'Rahilly, ''Early Irish History and Mythology'', Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946, pp. 24-25〕 This early scholarship also drew attention to apparent parallels among Celtic or Celticized peoples of the Iberian peninsula, specifically a leader of the Lusitani named Kaukainos (Καυκαῖνος), and a city called Kauka (Καύκα) (modern Coca), inhabited by Kaukaioi (Καυκαῖοι), among the Vaccaei, a prominent Celtiberian people.〔Appian, ''Iberica'' 51-2, 57; Zosimus, ''Historia Nova'' 4.24.4; L. Diefenbach, ''Celtica. Sprachliche Documente zur Geschichte der Kelten'' (Stuttgart 1839-40) I, pp. 320-21〕 With regard to possible descendants of the Irish Cauci, Pokorny and Ó Briain〔Micháel Ó Briain, "Studien zu irischen Völkernamen 1. Die Stammesnamen auf ''-rige''", ''Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie'' 15, 1925, pp. 222-237〕 respectively favoured the obscure medieval septs of Uí Cuaich and Cuachraige, though in neither case has a connection been demonstrated. == References == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cauci」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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