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.