Octodurus
Place
Gallic War 3.1 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Galba having fought some successful battles and stormed several of their forts, upon embassadors being sent to him from all parts and hostages given and a peace concluded, determined to station two cohorts among the Nantuates, and to winter in person with the other cohorts of that legion in a village of the Veragri, which is called Octodurus; and this …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 3.1
Caesar
… Galba having fought some successful battles and stormed several of their forts, upon embassadors being sent to him from all parts and hostages given and a peace concluded, determined to station two cohorts among the Nantuates, and to winter in person with the other cohorts of that legion in a village of the Veragri, which is called Octodurus; and this village being situated in a valley, with a small plain annexed to it, is bounded on all sides by very high mountains. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
Octodurus/Forum Claudii Vallensium (modern Martigny).
Pleiades 167859 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 17 I1 Octodurus/Forum Claudii Vallensium