1.10) and in the late division of Gallia, they formed the Viennensis. In the division of Gallia under Augustus, the Allobroges were included in Narbonensis, the Provincia of Caesar ( Caes. The Allobroges had a senate, or some body that in a manner corresponded to the Roman senate ( Cic. When Caesar was governor of Gallia, the Allobroges north of the Rhone fled to him for protection against the Helvetii, who were then marching through their country, B.C. The ambassadors, however, through fear or some other motive, betrayed the conspirators ( Sal. The Allobroges were looked on with suspicion by their conquerors, for though conquered they retained their old animosity and their dislike of Roman dominion will explain the attempt made by the conspirators with Catiline, to gain over the Allobroges through some ambassadors of the nation who were then in Rome (B.C. október 6-án került sor Arausio városa, (a mai Orange, Vaucluse) és a Rhodanus ( Rhône) folyó között, a kimber háború csúcspontja. 185): most of them lived in small towns or villages, and their chief place was Vienna. Under Roman dominion they became a more agricultural: people, as Strabo describes them (p. 121), who from his victory derived the cognomen Allobrogicus. The Aedui, who were the first allies of Rome north of the Alps, having complained of the incursions of the Allobroges into their territory, the Allobroges were attacked and defeated near the junction of the Rhone and the Saone by Q. The Allobroges are first mentioned in history as having joined Hannibal B.C. Plt Sertorius Chapter 3: Soldier in the battles of Arausio and Aqua Sextiae. Sets found in the same folder freaking Caesar book 1. The limits of their territory may be generally defined in one direction, by a line drawn from Vienna ( Vienne) on the Rhone, which was their chief city, to Geneva on the Leman lake. Dbg Book I Chapter 2: The conspiration of Orgetorix About the Helvetii. When the state riled on account of this thing tried to pursue their rights with arms and the magistrates forced a multitude of men from the fields, Orgetorix died and the suspicion not absent, as the Helvetii were thinking, that he killed himself. To the south of the Allobroges were the Vocontii. The Sequani were the northern neighbours of the Allobroges, who seem to have had some territory on the north side of the Rhone above the junction of the Rhone with the Arar ( Saone). 1.6) the Rhodanus, near its outlet from the lake Lemannus, or the lake of Geneva, was the boundary between the Allobroges and the Helvetii and the furthest town of the Allobroges on the Helvetic border was Geneva, at which place there was a road over the Rhone into the Helvetic territory by a bridge. On the west they were bounded by the Segusiani ( Caes. ALLO´ BROGES ( Ἀλλόβριγες, Ἀλλόβρυγες, and Ἀλλόβρογες, as the Greeks write the name), a Gallic people, whose territory lay on the east side of the Rhone, and chiefly between the Rhone and the Isara ( Isère). I include a public domain, early 20th century. The exam expects you to read not just these passages, but also the rest of Books I, VI, and VII of Caesars Commentaries in English. The Cimbri could not be prevented from crossing the Alps, but in 101 they were brought to battle at Vercellae and again wiped out by Marius.Eth. On this page you will find the text for the passages from Caesars Gallic Wars that are required reading in Latin for the AP Latin exam in 2012. They marched on Italy in 102, but the Teutones were decisively defeated by Marius’ reformed army at the river Arc. Ranged against the migratory tribes of the Cimbri under Boiorix and the Teutoni under Teutobod were two Roman armies, commanded by the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. Marius was elected consul in the emergency, but the tribes turned on Spain instead. The Battle of Arausio took place on 6 October 105 BC, at a site between the town of Arausio (now Orange, Vaucluse), and the Rhne River. 106 BC, Cirta, Romans (Gaius Marius), Numidians (Jughurta/Bocchus). In 105, facing an even larger tribal confederation and suffering from divided command, the Romans were defeated at Arausio, causing panic in Italy. 107 BC, Transalpine Gaul, Helvetii, Romans (Cassius). While pursuing these, a Roman army was ambushed and ignominiously surrendered at Aginnum. They were unsuccessfully attacked again, and by 107 had been joined by Helvetian tribes. After defeating the Romans at Noreia, by 110 the Cimbri and Teutones had entered Gaul, requesting leave to settle. Around 118, the Cimbri and Teutones began their great migration, and in 113 they plundered tribes allied with Rome. In 121 bc the Allobroges were defeated at Vindalium, and a Gallic confederation was routed on the banks of the Isara. The Romans’ expansion in southern Gaul was intended to help its ally Massilia and open a land route to Roman possessions in Spain.
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