The Marici were a Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling around present-day Pavia (Lombardy) during the Iron Age.
Name The ethnic name Marici can be translated as 'the big ones', from the Celtic stem maro- ('tall'). According to Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, such linguistically Celtic tribal names suggest that a Celto-Ligurian dialect played an important role among the languages spoken in ancient Ligury.
Geography The Marici lived around the modern town of Pavia. The Barrington Atlas locates their territory south of the Laevi, east of the Iadatini, west of the Cenomani, north of the Anamares., Map 39: Mediolanum.
History In the Third Book of his Natural History, Pliny the Elder identifies them as the co-founders, along with the Laevi, of Ticinum, the modern Pavia.The text, in Philemon Holland’s 1601 English translation, is available online at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/pliny3.html
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