Metropolitans
People / regional collective
Civil War 3.81 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “The Metropolitans, at first following the same policy, influenced by the same rumours as the others, closed their gates and manned their walls with armed men; but. afterwards learning from captives, whom Caesar had directed to be produced before the walls, of the fall of the town of Gomphi, they opened their gates. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.81
Caesar
The Metropolitans, at first following the same policy, influenced by the same rumours as the others, closed their gates and manned their walls with armed men; but. afterwards learning from captives, whom Caesar had directed to be produced before the walls, of the fall of the town of Gomphi, they opened their gates. …