Aquitania
Place
Gallic War 1.1 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Aquitania extends from the river Garonne to the Pyrenaean mountains and to that part of the ocean which is near Spain: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star.”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 1.1
Caesar
… Aquitania extends from the river Garonne to the Pyrenaean mountains and to that part of the ocean which is near Spain: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star.
Gallic War 3.11
Caesar
… He orders P. Crassus to proceed into Aquitania with twelve legionary cohorts and a great number of the cavalry, lest auxiliaries should be sent into Gaul by these states, and such great nations be united. …
Gallic War 3.20
Caesar
About the same time, P. Crassus, when he had arrived in Aquitania (which, as has been before said, both from its extent of territory and the great number of its people, is to be reckoned a third part of Gaul,) understanding that he was to wage war in these parts, where a few years before, L. Valerius Praeconinus, the lieutenant had been killed, and his army routed, and from which L. Manilius, the proconsul, had fled with the loss of his baggage, he perceived that no ordinary care must be used by him. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · rough
A region corresponding generally to modern Aquitaine in France. Its Latin name derives from a tribal confederation incorporated into the Roman empire in the first century BCE. Subsequent Roman provinces used the name.
Pleiades 138187 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 14 F3 Aquitania
All indexed divisions · 9
Gallic War 1.1 · Gallic War 3.11 · Gallic War 3.20 · Gallic War 3.21 · Gallic War 3.23 · Gallic War 3.26 · Gallic War 3.27 · Gallic War 7.31 · Gallic War 8.46