Alps
Place
Gallic War 1.10 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… He himself proceeds to Italy by forced marches, and there levies two legions, and leads out from winter-quarters three which were wintering around Aquileia , and with these five legions marches rapidly by the nearest route across the Alps into Further Gaul. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 1.10
Caesar
… He himself proceeds to Italy by forced marches, and there levies two legions, and leads out from winter-quarters three which were wintering around Aquileia , and with these five legions marches rapidly by the nearest route across the Alps into Further Gaul. …
Gallic War 3.1
Caesar
When Caesar was setting out for Italy, he sent Servius Galba with the twelfth legion and part of the cavalry, against the Nantuates, the Veragri, and Seduni, who extend from the territories of the Allobroges, and the lake of Geneva , and the River Rhone to the top of the Alps. …
Gallic War 3.2
Caesar
… To this was added, that they were indignant that their children were torn from them under the title of hostages, and they were persuaded that the Romans designed to seize upon the summits of the Alps , and unite those parts to the neighboring province [of Gaul], not only to secure the passes, but also a constant possession.
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · rough
The Alps are one of the great mountain ranges of Europe stretching some 1,200 km. (750 miles).
Pleiades 783 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 1 E2 Alpes M.
All indexed divisions · 5
Gallic War 1.10 · Gallic War 3.1 · Gallic War 3.2 · Gallic War 3.7 · Gallic War 4.10