Avaricum
Place
Gallic War 7.13 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… When these affairs were accomplished, Caesar marched to the Avaricum , which was the largest and best fortified town in the territories of the Bituriges, and situated in a most fertile tract of country; because he confidently expected that on taking that town, he would reduce beneath his dominion the state of the Bituriges.”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 7.13
Caesar
… When these affairs were accomplished, Caesar marched to the Avaricum , which was the largest and best fortified town in the territories of the Bituriges, and situated in a most fertile tract of country; because he confidently expected that on taking that town, he would reduce beneath his dominion the state of the Bituriges.
Civil War 3.47
Caesar
… They remembered that at Alesia they had endured great privation, still greater at Avaricum, and had come off victors over very important nations. …
Gallic War 7.15
Caesar
… There is a debate concerning Avaricum in the general council, whether they should decide, that it should be burned or defended. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
Avaricum/Biturigae, located at the confluence of Auron and Yèvre river, served as the capital of the Bituriges Cubi.
Pleiades 138207 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 14 H1 Avaricum/Biturigae
All indexed divisions · 11
Gallic War 7.13 · Gallic War 7.15 · Gallic War 7.16 · Gallic War 7.18 · Gallic War 7.29 · Gallic War 7.30 · Gallic War 7.31 · Gallic War 7.32 · Gallic War 7.47 · Gallic War 7.52 · Civil War 3.47