Vellaunodunum
Place
Gallic War 7.11 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “On the second day, when he came to Vellaunodunum, a town of the Senones , he determined to attack it, in order that he might not leave an enemy in his rear, and might the more easily procure supplies of provisions, and draw a line of circumvallation around it in two days: on the third day, embassadors being sent from the town to treat of a capitulation, he …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 7.11
Caesar
On the second day, when he came to Vellaunodunum, a town of the Senones , he determined to attack it, in order that he might not leave an enemy in his rear, and might the more easily procure supplies of provisions, and draw a line of circumvallation around it in two days: on the third day, embassadors being sent from the town to treat of a capitulation, he orders their arms to be brought together, their cattle to be brought forth, and six hundred hostages to be given. …
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
Gazetteer record reviewed; location unlocated / geometry withheld
Vellaunodunum, now unlocated, was a Gallic oppidum of the Senones tribe two days' march from Agedincum.
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