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In Latin poetry Oestreminis ("Extreme West") was a name given to the territory of what is today modern Portugal, comparable to ''Finis terrae'', the "end of the earth" from a Mediterranean perspective. Its inhabitants were named Oestrimni from their location. The fourth century CE Roman poet on geographical subjects, Rufus Avienus Festus, in ''Ora Maritima'' ("Seacoasts"), a poem inspired by a much earlier Greek mariners' ''periplus'', records that ''Oestriminis'' was peopled by the ''Oestrimni'', a people that had lived there for a long time, who had to run away from their native lands after an invasion of serpents. His fanciful account has no archeological or historical application, but the poetical name has sometimes been ambitiously applied to popularized accounts of the Paleolithic inhabitants of Atlantic Iberia. The expulsion of the ''Oestrimni'', from ''Ora Maritima:'' The "serpent people" of the semi-mythical Ophiussa in the far west are noted in ancient Greek sources. ==Notes== 〔 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「Oestriminis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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