Gergovia
Place
Gallic War 7.4 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… On his design being made known, they rush to arms: he is expelled from the town of Gergovia , by his uncle Gobanitio and the rest of the nobles, who were of opinion, that such an enterprise ought not to be hazarded: he did not however desist, but held in the country a levy of the needy and desperate. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 7.4
Caesar
… On his design being made known, they rush to arms: he is expelled from the town of Gergovia , by his uncle Gobanitio and the rest of the nobles, who were of opinion, that such an enterprise ought not to be hazarded: he did not however desist, but held in the country a levy of the needy and desperate. …
Civil War 3.73
Caesar
… If this were done, the result would be that the loss would be turned to advantage, as had happened at Gergovia, and those who had previously feared to fight would voluntarily offer themselves for battle.
Gallic War 7.9
Caesar
… Vercingetorix, on hearing this circumstance, leads back his army into the country of the Bituriges; and after marching from it to Gergovia , a town of the Boii, whom Caesar had settled there after defeating them in the Helvetian war, and had rendered tributary to the Aedui, he determined to attack it.
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 14 I3 Gergovia?
Pleiades 138373 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 14 I3 Gergovia?
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Gallic War 7.4 · Gallic War 7.9 · Gallic War 7.12 · Gallic War 7.34 · Gallic War 7.36 · Gallic War 7.37 · Gallic War 7.38 · Gallic War 7.40 · Gallic War 7.41 · Gallic War 7.42 · Gallic War 7.43 · Gallic War 7.45 · Gallic War 7.59 · Civil War 3.73