wives
Social role / institution
Gallic War 1.18 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… strengthening this influence has given his mother in marriage among the Bituriges to a man the most noble and most influential there; that he has himself taken a wife from among the Helvetii, and has given his sister by the mother's side and his female relations in marriage into other states; that he favors and wishes well to the Helvetii on account of this …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 1.18
Caesar
… strengthening this influence has given his mother in marriage among the Bituriges to a man the most noble and most influential there; that he has himself taken a wife from among the Helvetii, and has given his sister by the mother's side and his female relations in marriage into other states; that he favors and wishes well to the Helvetii on account of this connection; and that he hates Caesar and the Romans, on his own account, because by their arrival his power was weakened, and his brother, Divitiacus, restored to his former position of influence and dignity: that, if any thing should happen to the Romans, he entertains the highest hope of gaining the sovereignty by means of the Helvetii, but that under the government of the Roman people he despairs not only of royalty, but even of that influence which he already has." …
Civil War 2.5
Caesar
… It was easy to get a view into the city from the camp of G. Trebonius and from all the higher parts, and to see how all the youth that had remained in the town and all the men of more advanced age with their children and wives in the public places and guard-houses or on the wall were stretching their hands to heaven or visiting the temples of the immortal gods and, prostrate before their shrines, were beseeching the gods for victory. …
Gallic War 1.53
Caesar
… Ariovistus had two wives, one a Suevan by nation, whom he brought with him from home; the other a Norican, the sister of king Vocion, whom he had married in Gaul, she having been sent [thither for that purpose] by her brother. …
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Gallic War 1.18 · Gallic War 1.53 · Gallic War 4.19 · Gallic War 5.14 · Gallic War 6.19 · Gallic War 7.14 · Gallic War 7.66 · Gallic War 7.78 · Civil War 2.5 · Civil War 3.110