hostages
Social role / institution
Gallic War 1.9 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… He, therefore, undertakes the affair, and prevails upon the Sequani to allow the Helvetii to march through their territories, and arranges that they should give hostages to each other-the Sequani not to obstruct the Helvetii in their march-the Helvetii, to pass without mischief and outrage.”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 1.9
Caesar
… He, therefore, undertakes the affair, and prevails upon the Sequani to allow the Helvetii to march through their territories, and arranges that they should give hostages to each other-the Sequani not to obstruct the Helvetii in their march-the Helvetii, to pass without mischief and outrage.
Civil War 1.74
Caesar
… The same thing is done by the Spanish chieftains whom the enemy had called out and were keeping with them in camp as hostages. …
Gallic War 1.14
Caesar
… Although these things are so, yet, if hostages were to be given him by them in order that he may be assured these will do what they promise, and provided they will give satisfaction to the Aedui for the outrages which they had committed against them and their allies, and likewise to the Allobroges, he [Caesar] will make peace with them." …
All indexed divisions · 68
Gallic War 1.9 · Gallic War 1.14 · Gallic War 1.19 · Gallic War 1.27 · Gallic War 1.28 · Gallic War 1.31 · Gallic War 1.33 · Gallic War 1.35 · Gallic War 1.36 · Gallic War 1.37 · Gallic War 1.43 · Gallic War 1.44 · Gallic War 2.1 · Gallic War 2.3 · Gallic War 2.5 · Gallic War 2.13 · Gallic War 2.15 · Gallic War 2.35 · Gallic War 3.1 · Gallic War 3.2 · Gallic War 3.3 · Gallic War 3.8 · Gallic War 3.10 · Gallic War 3.23 · Gallic War 3.27 · Gallic War 4.16 · Gallic War 4.18 · Gallic War 4.21 · Gallic War 4.22 · Gallic War 4.27 · Gallic War 4.31 · Gallic War 4.36 · Gallic War 4.38 · Gallic War 5.1 · Gallic War 5.4 · Gallic War 5.5 · Gallic War 5.20 · Gallic War 5.22 · Gallic War 5.23 · Gallic War 5.27 · Gallic War 5.47 · Gallic War 6.2 · Gallic War 6.3 · Gallic War 6.4 · Gallic War 6.6 · Gallic War 6.9 · Gallic War 6.12 · Gallic War 7.2 · Gallic War 7.4 · Gallic War 7.7 · Gallic War 7.11 · Gallic War 7.12 · Gallic War 7.54 · Gallic War 7.55 · Gallic War 7.63 · Gallic War 7.64 · Gallic War 7.90 · Gallic War 8.3 · Gallic War 8.20 · Gallic War 8.23 · Gallic War 8.27 · Gallic War 8.31 · Gallic War 8.38 · Gallic War 8.46 · Gallic War 8.48 · Civil War 1.74 · Civil War 1.84 · Civil War 3.12