Olyndicus also known as Olonicus was a celtiberian

Celtiberians

The Celtiberians were Celtic-speaking people of the Iberian Peninsula in the final centuries BC. The group used the Celtic Celtiberian language.Archaeologically, the Celtiberians participated in the Hallstatt culture in what is now north-central Spain...

 war chief who led a rebellion against Rome, fighting against the praetor

Praetor

Praetor was a title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to men acting in one of two official capacities: the commander of an army, usually in the field, or the named commander before mustering the army; and an elected magistratus assigned varied duties...

 Lucius Canuleyus and his troops, in the province of Hispania Ulterior

Hispania Ulterior

During the Roman Republic, Hispania Ulterior was a region of Hispania roughly located in Baetica and in the Guadalquivir valley of modern Spain and extending to all of Lusitania and Gallaecia...

. According to Florus

Florus

Florus, Roman historian, lived in the time of Trajan and Hadrian.He compiled, chiefly from Livy, a brief sketch of the history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the closing of the temple of Janus by Augustus . The work, which is called Epitome de T...

, he was a great leader, and a cunning and daring warrior.

The lance of Olyndicus

Olyndicus was said to have behaved like a prophet and to have led his troops wielding a silver lance, sent to him by the gods from the sky.

External links

• Elementos chamánicos y uránicos en el episodio del celtibero Olíndico (Shamanic elements about the topic of Olyndicus) (in Spanish).
• E-Keltoi: Celtiberian Ideologies and Religion
• La lanza de Olíndico (spanish)