Loire
Place
Gallic War 3.9 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “Caesar, being informed of these things by Crassus, since he was so far distant himself, orders ships of war to be built in the mean time on the river Loire , which flows into the ocean; rowers to be raised from the province; sailors and pilots to be provided. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 3.9
Caesar
Caesar, being informed of these things by Crassus, since he was so far distant himself, orders ships of war to be built in the mean time on the river Loire , which flows into the ocean; rowers to be raised from the province; sailors and pilots to be provided. …
Gallic War 7.5
Caesar
… When they came to the river Loire , which separates the Bituriges from the Aedui, they delayed a few days there, and, not daring to pass the river, return home, and send back word to the lieutenants that they had returned through fear of the treachery of the Bituriges, who, they ascertained, had formed this design, that if the Aedui should cross the river, the Bituriges on the one side, and the Arverni on the other, should surround them. …
Gallic War 7.11
Caesar
… Caesar arrived here in two days; after pitching his camp before the town, being prevented by the time of the day, he defers the attack to the next day, and orders his soldiers to prepare whatever was necessary for that enterprise; and as a bridge over the Loire connected the town of Genabum with the opposite bank, fearing lest the inhabitants should escape by night from the town, he orders two legions to keep watch under arms. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
The Loire River is the longest in France. The river runs a course of 1,012 kilometers (629 miles).
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All indexed divisions · 7
Gallic War 3.9 · Gallic War 7.5 · Gallic War 7.11 · Gallic War 7.55 · Gallic War 7.56 · Gallic War 7.59 · Gallic War 8.27