** Commentarii de Bello Gallico, " Commentaries on the Gallic War "

They feature prominently in the Commentaries on the Gallic War, with their failed migration attempt to southwestern Gaul ( 58 BC ) serving as a catalyst for Caesar's conquest of Gaul.

The first known reference to the territory in modern Luxembourg was by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic War.

Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War ( written in the 50s BC ) survives in nine copies written in the 8th century.

In Gallic War ( Bk IV, Para.

* Julius Caesar, The Gallic War

In his Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( Commentaries on the Gallic War ), Caesar describes how at the Battle of Alesia the Roman legions created two huge fortified walls around the city.

Of the battlegrounds of the Gallic War there are references to: The siege and massacre of the 40, 000 residents at Avaricum 52 BC ; Vercingetorix commented that " the Romans did not conquer by valor nor in the field, but by a kind of art and skill in assault, with which they themselves were unacquainted.

The Latin title, literally Commentaries about the Gallic War, is often retained in English translations of the book, and the title is also translated to About the Gallic War, Of the Gallic War, On the Gallic War, The Conquest of Gaul, and The Gallic War.

In Allan Massie's 1993 book entitled Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus narrates his story and reason for joining in Caesar's assassination while being held captive by the Gallic chief.

He attempted to reach Macedonia, where Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus had stationed themselves but was executed en route by a Gallic chief loyal to Mark Antony, becoming the first of Caesar's assassins to be killed.

* 283 BC: Rome defeats the Etruscans and the Boii ( a Gallic tribe ) in the Battle of Lake Vadimo

Those whom Lupin defeats, always with his characteristic Gallic style and panache, are worse villains than he.

He was a legate in Caesar's army during the Gallic wars and was given the command of the fleet in the war against the Veneti.

This occurred during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, when the maritime tribe of the Veneti rebelled against Rome.

Until this publication the so-called " matter of Brittany " ( Breton legends ) was known only from references to some legends in French language Romances of the 13th and 14th centuries, in which much of the culture was also transformed to suit Gallic hearers.

On 12 May 2012, Altan began a tour of Europe in Baltimore, Ireland including a 2-date visit in France on 15 May 2012 in the suburbs of Lyon ( Altan's third performance in the area of the Gallic capital in exactly a year ) and on 16 May 2012 in Fouesnant, Brittany, visiting Ireland once again, Belgium, UK ( where Altan is announced to take part in the Ireby Festival, Cumbria on 2 June 2012 ), Germany, Switzerland, another visit in France ( on 7 July 2012 in Tain-l ' Hermitage ) and ending at Dunlewy near Gweedore, Altan's homeland on 10 August 2012.

One more consequence of the catastrophe at the battle of Edessa was that Gallienus lost control over the two provinces of Germania, Britain, Spain and a large part of Gaul, when another general, Postumus, had declared his own realm ( typically known today as the Gallic Empire ).

On the Gallic side, one of the leaders, Concolitanus, is captured in battle, while the leader of the Gaesatae, Aneroëstes, kills himself when the battle is lost.

( The end has been lost, so it is unclear whether Diodorus reached the beginning of the Gallic War as he promised at the beginning of his work or, as evidence suggests, old and tired from his labours he stopped short at 60 BC.

Pyrrhus, realising that his Gallic troops were hard pressed, now advanced into the city with more troops, but in the narrow streets this soon led to confusion as men got lost and wandered around.

Following the death of Postumus, his empire lost control of Britain and Spain, and the shrunken remains of the Gallic Empire were inherited by Marcus Aurelius Marius.

# Martial and Juvenal have many references to eunuchism and the use to which the Roman ladies put these castratos, who were of various kinds: castrati ( castare, meaning to cut oft )-- those who had lost both penis and testicles ; spadones ( either spata, a Gallic word meaning a razor, or Spada, a Persian village where the operation of eunuchism is performed )-- those who still retained the penis ; thlibiae ( from the Greek meaning to rub with hemlock, etc.

The most serious consequence of this battle was not the loss of their possessions in Gaul to the Franks ; with Ostrogothic help, much of the Gallic territory was recovered, Herwig Wolfram notes, perhaps as far as Toulouse.

In 507, the Visigoths were expelled by the Franks from most of their Gallic possessions, and thereafter ruled a state in Hispania.

By and large, the Treveri were more co-operative with the Romans, who completed their occupation in 53 BC under Julius Caesar, than most Gallic tribes.

Also, worship of animals was not uncommon ; the animal most sacred to the Gauls was the boar, which can be found on many Gallic military standards, much like the Roman eagle.

Perhaps the most intriguing facet of Gallic religion is the practice of the Druids.

Marcellus gained the most prestigious award a Roman general could earn, the spolia opima, for killing the Gallic military leader and king Viridomarus in hand-to-hand combat in 222 BC at the battle of Clastidium.

The Gallic Wars are described by Julius Caesar as himself in his book Commentarii de Bello Gallico, which is a pertinent and only slightly tendentious and altogether the most important historical source regarding the conflict.

It is only one possible landing place, but it is the most probable, judging from the distances given in his account of the landings in his Gallic Wars.

These forces were commanded by the brothers Gnaeus Pompeius and Sextus ( sons of Pompey ) and by the talented general Titus Labienus, who had been one of the most trusted of Caesar ’ s generals during the Gallic wars.

The most frequently imitated prototypes are of the Gallic emperors the Tetricii ( 270-273 ), Tetricus I and his son, Tetricus II.

The most popular hypothesis sees the name Beli as a Middle Welsh reflex of the Gaulish and Brittonic theonym Belenus ( also attested as a personal name ), but a more recent alternative is that proposed by the Celticist John Koch, who suggests that Beli derives from an Old Celtic name Belgius or Bolgios, borne by one of the chieftains who led the Gallic invasion of Macedonia in 280-279 BCE.

Given what is known of the chronology of the ‘ Gallic Empire ’ his bid for Empire is most probably associated with the period of confusion following the officers ’ coup against the ‘ Gallic Emperor ’, Victorinus, early in 271.

The most likely interpretation of the evidence of the coins is that Domitianus was involved in the officer coup that overthrew Victorinus and managed to secure temporary control of one of the ' Gallic ' mints.

On the whole, the Treveri were more successful than most Gallic tribes in cooperating with the Romans.

They played a major role in Julius Caesar's account of his " Gallic Wars ", as the most important tribe within the Germani group of tribes east of the Rhine.

Caesar recounts in his Gallic Wars that in 57 BC the Suessiones were ruled by Galba, and that in living memory of that time their king Diviciacus had exercised sovereignty over most of the Belgians and even parts of Britain.

* The H-Type's most regular and prolific TV / film appearance is in the long-running French drama series ' Louis la Brocante ' ( 1998 – present ), a sort of Gallic ' Lovejoy ', where middle-aged antiques dealer Louis Roman ( played by Victor Lanoux ) drives an immaculate beige HY.

John Cassian was born around 360, most likely in the region of Scythia Minor ( now Dobruja in modern-day Romania and Bulgaria ), although some scholars assume a Gallic origin.