Celtillus
Person
Gallic War 7.4 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “There in like manner, Vercingetorix the son of Celtillus the Arvernian, a young man of the highest power (whose father had held the supremacy of entire Gaul, and had been put to death by his fellow-citizens, for this reason, because he aimed at sovereign power), summoned together his dependents, and easily excited them. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 7.4
Caesar
There in like manner, Vercingetorix the son of Celtillus the Arvernian, a young man of the highest power (whose father had held the supremacy of entire Gaul, and had been put to death by his fellow-citizens, for this reason, because he aimed at sovereign power), summoned together his dependents, and easily excited them. …
Explicit source relations
- Celtillus — father of — Vercingetorix · Dossier · Gallic War 7.4