status of the Lepontiers in the roman army and urban life??

[Nahars]

Can anybody tell me something more about the relationship between the Lepontiers and the Romans. Through out the Roman history...

I know there culture is something like a mix between something Celtic and Roman... According to grave finds I say 50 to 50%. But that off course is material. So what about there status in the roman empire..?

The Lepontii were part of the proto-Celtic "Golasecca culture" of northern Italy; they belonged to a first Celtic migration in the Alpine region and in the nearby portions of north-western Italy. That migration appened some centuries before the great Gallic invasion of Italy which occurred between the fifth and the fourth century BC; before the Gallic invasion of the Po valley and the Roman conquest, the Lepontii and their neighbours the Rhaeti had many contacts with the Etruscan centers in the Po valley, and to write they used an alphabet drafted from the Etruscan one; 46 Alpine tribes, and among them the Lepontii, were definitely subjugated by Drusus and Tiberius in 15 BC under emperor Augustus, as celebrated in the inscription of the "Tropaeum Alpium" near Monaco.

During the empire, the Lepontii probably were collected together with the other Alpine tribes in the "Cohortes Alpinorum".
For example the "Cohors prima Alpinorum equitata" was recorded in Illyricum in 60 AD, in Pannonia in 80AD, in Britannia in 103AD, in Dacia Superior in 144AD.