Helvetii
People / regional collective
The opening campaign describes the Helvetii through migration preparations, negotiations over passage, fighting and the aftermath of surrender. Caesar also reports population figures and written tablets. Those figures and his division of the people into cantons are evidence for his narrative’s classification, not an independently established demographic census.
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Editorial evidence: Gallic War 1.2 · Gallic War 1.12 · Gallic War 1.29
Gallic War 1.1
Caesar
… Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are furthest from the civilization and refinement of [our] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them, and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind; and they are the nearest to the Germans, who dwell beyond the Rhine , with whom they are continually waging war; for which reason the Helvetii also surpass the rest of the Gauls in valor, as they contend with the Germans in almost daily battles, when they either repel them from their own territories, or themselves wage war on their frontiers. …
Gallic War 1.2
Caesar
Among the Helvetii, Orgetorix was by far the most distinguished and wealthy. …
Gallic War 1.3
Caesar
… He proves to them that to accomplish their attempts was a thing very easy to be done, because he himself would obtain the government of his own state; that there was no doubt that the Helvetii were the most powerful of the whole of Gaul; he assures them that he will, with his own forces and his own army, acquire the sovereignty for them. …
Explicit source relations
- Divico — heads embassy from — Helvetii · Dossier · Gallic War 1.13
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