women
Social role / institution
Gallic War 1.29 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “In the camp of the Helvetii, lists were found, drawn up in Greek characters, and were brought to Caesar, in which an estimate had been drawn up, name by name, of the number which had gone forth from their country of those who were able to bear arms; and likewise the boys, the old men, and the women, separately. …”
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Gallic War 1.29
Caesar
In the camp of the Helvetii, lists were found, drawn up in Greek characters, and were brought to Caesar, in which an estimate had been drawn up, name by name, of the number which had gone forth from their country of those who were able to bear arms; and likewise the boys, the old men, and the women, separately. …
Civil War 3.9
Caesar
… But the Roman citizens, rapidly constructing wooden towers, protected themselves with them, and, being weak in resistance owing to their small numbers, worn out by constant wounds, betook themselves to the last resource of despair and armed all their grown-up slaves, and cut off the hair of all their women to make catapult ropes. …
Gallic War 1.51
Caesar
… On these they placed their women, who, with disheveled hair and in tears, entreated the soldiers, as they went forward to battle, not to deliver them into slavery to the Romans.
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Gallic War 1.29 · Gallic War 1.51 · Gallic War 2.13 · Gallic War 2.16 · Gallic War 2.28 · Gallic War 4.14 · Gallic War 6.21 · Gallic War 7.28 · Gallic War 7.47 · Civil War 3.9