Senones
People / regional collective
Gallic War 2.2 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… He gives a commission to the Senones and the other Gauls who were neighbors of the Belgae, to learn what is going on among them [i.e. the Belgae], and inform him of these matters. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 2.2
Caesar
… He gives a commission to the Senones and the other Gauls who were neighbors of the Belgae, to learn what is going on among them [i.e. the Belgae], and inform him of these matters. …
Gallic War 5.54
Caesar
… The Senones , however, which is a state eminently powerful and one of great influence among the Gauls, attempting by general design to slay Cavarinus, whom Caesar had created king among them (whose brother, Moritasgus, had held the sovereignty at the period of the arrival of Caesar in Gaul, and whose ancestors had also previously held it), when he discovered their plot and fled, pursued him even to the frontiers [of the state], and drove him from his kingdom and his home; and, after having sent embassadors to Caesar for the purpose of concluding a peace, when he ordered all their senate to come to him, did not obey that command. …
Gallic War 5.56
Caesar
When he perceived that they were coming to him voluntarily; that on the one side the Senones and the Carnutes were stimulated by their consciousness of guilt, on the other side the Nervii and the Aduatuci were preparing war against the Romans, and that forces of volunteers would not be wanting to him if he began to advance from his own territories, he proclaims an armed council (this according to the custom of the Gauls in the commencement of war) at which, by a common law, all the youth were wont to assemble in arms, whoever of them comes last is killed in the sight of the whole assembly after being racked with every torture. …
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Gallic War 2.2 · Gallic War 5.54 · Gallic War 5.56 · Gallic War 6.2 · Gallic War 6.3 · Gallic War 6.5 · Gallic War 6.44 · Gallic War 7.4 · Gallic War 7.11 · Gallic War 7.34 · Gallic War 7.56 · Gallic War 7.58 · Gallic War 7.75 · Gallic War 8.30