Genabum
Place
Gallic War 7.3 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “When the appointed day came, the Carnutes, under the command of Cotuatus and Conetodunus, desperate men, meet together at Genabum , and slay the Roman citizens who had settled there for the purpose of trading (among the rest, Caius Fusius Cita, a distinguished Roman knight, who by Caesar's orders had presided over the provision department), and plunder …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 7.3
Caesar
When the appointed day came, the Carnutes, under the command of Cotuatus and Conetodunus, desperate men, meet together at Genabum , and slay the Roman citizens who had settled there for the purpose of trading (among the rest, Caius Fusius Cita, a distinguished Roman knight, who by Caesar's orders had presided over the provision department), and plunder their property. …
Gallic War 7.11
Caesar
… He leaves Caius Trebonius his lieutenant, to complete these arrangements; he himself sets out with the intention of marching as soon as possible, to Genabum , a town of the Carnutes, who having then for the first time received information of the siege of Vellaunodunum, as they thought that it would be protracted to a longer time, were preparing a garrison to send to Genabum for the defense of that town. …
Gallic War 7.14
Caesar
Vercingetorix, after sustaining such a series of losses at Vellaunodunum, Genabum , and Noviodunum , summons his men to a council. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
Cenabum was an oppidum of the Carnutes tribe.
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Gallic War 7.3 · Gallic War 7.11 · Gallic War 7.14 · Gallic War 7.17 · Gallic War 7.28 · Gallic War 8.5 · Gallic War 8.6