Ubii
People / regional collective
Gallic War 1.54 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “This battle having been reported beyond the Rhine , the Suevi, who had come to the banks of that river, began to return home, when the Ubii, who dwelt nearest to the Rhine , pursuing them, while much alarmed, slew a great number of them. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 1.54
Caesar
This battle having been reported beyond the Rhine , the Suevi, who had come to the banks of that river, began to return home, when the Ubii, who dwelt nearest to the Rhine , pursuing them, while much alarmed, slew a great number of them. …
Gallic War 4.3
Caesar
… On the other side they border on the Ubii, whose state was large and flourishing, considering the condition of the Germans, and who are somewhat more refined than those of the same race and the rest [of the Germans], and that because they border on the Rhine , and are much resorted to by merchants, and are accustomed to the manners of the Gauls, by reason of their approximity to them. …
Gallic War 4.8
Caesar
To these remarks Caesar replied in such terms as he thought proper; but the conclusion of his speech was, "That he could make no alliance with them, if they continued in Gaul; that it was not probable that they who were not able to defend their own territories, should get possession of those of others, nor were there any lands lying waste in Gaul, which could be given away, especially to so great a number of men, without doing wrong [to others]; but they might, if they were desirous, settle in the territories of the Ubii; whose embassadors were then with him, and were complaining of the aggressions of the Suevi, and requesting assistance from him; and that he would obtain this request from them."
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