Raucillus
Person
Raucillus and his brother Egus are described as sons of Adbucillus and as beneficiaries of Caesar’s patronage. Caesar then reports accusations of misappropriating cavalry pay and their subsequent departure. The account’s evaluative language belongs to its portrayal of a broken relationship.
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Editorial evidence: Civil War 3.59 · Civil War 3.60
Civil War 3.59
Caesar
There were with Caesar, among his horsemen, two Allobrogian brothers, Raucillus and Egus, sons of Adbucillus, who had held the chieftainship in the state for many years, men of singular valour, whose very able and valiant co-operation Caesar had enjoyed in all his Gallic wars. …
Civil War 3.79
Caesar
… But the Allobroges, friends of Raucillus and Egus, who, as we have explained, had deserted to Pompeius, having seen on the route some scouts of Domitius, either by reason of their old intimacy because they had waged war together in Gaul, or in the elation of vainglory, set before them everything that had happened, and told them of the departure of Caesar and the arrival of Pompeius. …
Explicit source relations
- Egus — brothers — Raucillus · Dossier · Civil War 3.59
- Adbucillus — father of — Raucillus · Dossier · Civil War 3.59