Franco-Gallia eBook

François Hotman
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 187 pages of information about Franco-Gallia.

Franco-Gallia eBook

François Hotman
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 187 pages of information about Franco-Gallia.
1.  Cap. 12. lib. 6. cap. 4.  The Romans finding such-like Dissention; to be for their Interest; that is, proper Opportunities to enlarge their own Power, did all they cou’d to foment them:  And therefore made a League with the AEdui, whom (with a great many Compliments) they titled Brothers and Friends of the People of Rome.  Under the Protection and League of the AEdui, I find to have been first the Senones, with whom some time before the Parisians had join’d their Commonwealth in League and Amity.  Next, the Bellouaci, who had nevertheless a great City of their own, abounding in Numbers of People, and were of principal Authority and Repute among the Belgae, lib. 2. cap. 4. and lib. 7. cap. 7. Caesar reckons the Centrones, Grudii, Levaci, Pleumosii, Gordunni, under the Dominion of the Nervii, lib. 5. cap. 11.  He names the Eburones and Condrasii as Clients of the Treviri, lib. 4. cap. 2.  And of the Commonwealth of the Veneti (these are in Armorica or Brittanny) he writes, that their Domination extended over all those Maritime Regions; and that almost all that frequented those Seas were their Tributaries, lib. 3. cap. 2.  But the Power of the Arverni was so great, that it not only equall’d that of the AEdui, but a little before Caesar’s Arrival, had got most of their Clients and Dependents from them, lib. 6 cap. 4. lib. 7. cap. 10.  Whereupon, as Strabo writes in his 4th Book, they made War against Caesar with Four hundred thousand Men under the Conduct of their General Vercingetorix.  These were very averse to Kingly Government:  So that Celtillus, Father to Vercingetorix, a Man of great Power and Reputation (reckon’d the first Man in all Gaul,) was put to Death, by Order of his Commonwealth, for aspiring to the Kingdom.  The Sequani, on the other hand, had a King, one Catamantales, to whom the Romans gave the Title of their Friend and Ally, lib. 1. cap. 2.  Also the Suessiones, who were Masters of most large and fertile Territories, with 12 great Cities, and cou’d muster Fifty thousand fighting Men, had a little before that time Divitiacus, the most potent Prince of all Gallia for their King; he had not only the Command of the greatest Part of Belgae, but even of Britanny.  At Caesar’s Arrival they had one Galba for their King, lib. 2. cap. 1.  In Aquitania, the Grandfather of one Piso an Aquitanian reigned, and was called Friend by the People of Rome, lib. 4. cap. 3.  The Senones, a People of great Strength and Authority among the Gauls, had for some time Moritasgus their King; whose Ancestors had also been Kings in the same Place, lib. 5. cap. 13.  The Nitiobriges or Agenois, had Olovico for their King; and he also had the Appellation given him of Friend by the Senate of Rome, lib. 7. cap. 6.

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