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Lutetia

Place

Gallic War 6.3 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Having proclaimed a council of Gaul in the beginning of the spring, as he had been accustomed [to do], when the deputies from the rest, except the Senones , the Carnutes, and the Treviri , had come, judging this to be the commencement of war and revolt, that he might appear to consider all things of less consequence [than that war], he transfers the council …”

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Gallic War 6.3

Caesar

… Having proclaimed a council of Gaul in the beginning of the spring, as he had been accustomed [to do], when the deputies from the rest, except the Senones , the Carnutes, and the Treviri , had come, judging this to be the commencement of war and revolt, that he might appear to consider all things of less consequence [than that war], he transfers the council to Lutetia of the Parisii . These were adjacent to the Senones , and had united their state to them during the memory of their fathers, but were thought to have no part in the present plot. …

Gallic War 6.3

Gallic War 7.57

Caesar

While these things are being done by Caesar, Labienus, leaving at Agendicum the recruits who had lately arrived from Italy, to guard the baggage, marches with four legions to Lutetia (which is a town of the Parisii , situated on an island on the river Seine ), whose arrival being discovered by the enemy, numerous forces arrived from the neighboring states. …

Gallic War 7.57

Gallic War 7.58

Caesar

… This is a town of the Senones , situated on an island in the Seine , as we have just before observed of Lutetia . Having seized upon about fifty ships and quickly joined them together, and having placed soldiers in them, he intimidated by his unexpected arrival the inhabitants, of whom a great number had been called out to the war, and obtains possession of the town without a contest. …

Gallic War 7.58

Geographical record

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Lutetia (modern Paris) was the capital of the Parisii, a tribe of ancient Gaul.

Pleiades 109126 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 11 C4 Lutetia

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Gallic War 6.3 · Gallic War 7.57 · Gallic War 7.58

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