Belgae
People / regional collective
The opening ethnographic division assigns the Belgae a distinctive reputation and distance from the Province’s culture. Later embassies supply Caesar with estimates of individual peoples’ forces. The atlas preserves those named communities instead of turning the overarching label into an unchanging state or polygon.
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Editorial evidence: Gallic War 1.1 · Gallic War 2.4
Gallic War 1.1
Caesar
All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in our Gauls, the third. …
Gallic War 2.1
Caesar
… quarters in Hither Gaul, as we have shown above, frequent reports were brought to him, and he was also informed by letters from Labienus, that all the Belgae, who we have said are a third part of Gaul, were entering into a confederacy against the Roman people, and giving hostages to one another; that the reasons of the confederacy were these-first, because they feared that, after all [Celtic] Gaul was subdued, our army would be led against them; secondly, because they were instigated by several of the Gauls; some of whom as [on the one hand] they had been unwilling that the Germans should remain any longer in Gaul, so [on the other] they were dissatisfied that the army of the Roman people should pass the winter in it, and settle there; and others of them, from a natural instability and fickleness of disposition, were anxious for a revolution; [the Belgae were instigated] by several, also, because the government in Gaul was generally seized …
Gallic War 2.2
Caesar
… He gives a commission to the Senones and the other Gauls who were neighbors of the Belgae, to learn what is going on among them [i.e. the Belgae], and inform him of these matters. …
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