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Etruscan letters reads eluveitie, which has been interpreted as the Etruscan form of the Celtic eluetios ("the Helvetian"), presumably referring to a man of Helvetian descent living in Mantua.

They are mentioned as Helvetii by Cicero (mid-1st c. BC), Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Tacitus (early 2nd c. AD), in the genitive case

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