merchants
Social role / institution
Gallic War 1.1 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are furthest from the civilization and refinement of [our] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them, and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind; and they are the nearest to the Germans, who dwell beyond the Rhine , with whom they are continually waging war; for which reason …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 1.1
Caesar
… Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are furthest from the civilization and refinement of [our] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them, and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind; and they are the nearest to the Germans, who dwell beyond the Rhine , with whom they are continually waging war; for which reason the Helvetii also surpass the rest of the Gauls in valor, as they contend with the Germans in almost daily battles, when they either repel them from their own territories, or themselves wage war on their frontiers. …
Civil War 1.26
Caesar
To meet this Pompeius fitted out some large merchant-ships which he had seized in the port of Brundisium. …
Alexandrian War 11
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
… This catastrophe utterly demoralised the enemy, and Caesar returned to Alexandria with his victorious fleet, towing the merchant-ships against a gentle head wind.
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