Bibracte
Place
Gallic War 1.23 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “The next day (as there remained in all only two day's space [to the time] when he must serve out the corn to his army, and as he was not more than eighteen miles from Bibracte , by far the largest and best-stored town of the Aedui), he thought that he ought to provide for a supply of corn; and diverted his march from the Helvetii, and advanced rapidly to …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 1.23
Caesar
The next day (as there remained in all only two day's space [to the time] when he must serve out the corn to his army, and as he was not more than eighteen miles from Bibracte , by far the largest and best-stored town of the Aedui), he thought that he ought to provide for a supply of corn; and diverted his march from the Helvetii, and advanced rapidly to Bibracte . This circumstance is reported to the enemy by some deserters from Lucius Aemilius, a captain, of the Gallic horse. …
Gallic War 7.55
Caesar
… When Eporedirix and Viridomarus came to this place, and received information of the disposition of the state, that Litavicus had been admitted by the Aedui into Bibracte , which is a town of the greatest importance among them, that Convictolitanis the chief magistrate and a great part of the senate had gone to meet him, that embassadors had been publicly sent to Vercingetorix to negotiate a peace and alliance; they thought that so great an opportunity ought not to be neglected. …
Gallic War 7.63
Caesar
… On obtaining this request they insist that the chief command should be assigned to them; and when the affair became a disputed question, a council of all Gaul is summoned to Bibracte . They came together in great numbers and from every quarter to the same place. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
Bibracte (modern Mont-Beuvray) was an oppidum of the Celtic Aedui, later named Lugdunensis.
Pleiades 177473 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 18 B3 Bibracte
All indexed divisions · 6
Gallic War 1.23 · Gallic War 7.55 · Gallic War 7.63 · Gallic War 7.90 · Gallic War 8.2 · Gallic War 8.4