The Lugi were a people of ancient

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, known only from a single mention of them by the

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Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

c. 150. from his general description and the approximate locations of their neighbors their territory was along the western coast of the

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. Ptolemy does not provide them with a town or principal place.

Etymology

The

Pictish Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from late antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Virtually no direct attestations of Pictish remain, short of a limited number of geog ...

name ''Lugi'' probably stems from

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''*lugos'' ('crow'). A derivation from the Celtic god Lug has also been proposed.Abad, Rubén Abad. (2008). "La divinidad celeste/solar en el panteón céltico peninsular". In: ''Espacio, Tiempo y Forma''. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 21: 101.

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;Bibliography * {{Scotland during the Roman Empire Historical Celtic peoples Picts Tribes mentioned by Ptolemy

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