Gauls
group · 6 works · 10 mentions · 11 anchored passages
the Gauls · Germans · all the Gauls · states of Gaul
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Ancient people against whom Camillus's declaration of the threefold justifiable causes of war was directed.
The justifiable causes generally assigned for war are three, defence, indemnity, and punishment, all which are comprised in the declaration of Camillus against the Gauls, enumerating all things, which it is right to defend, to recover, and the encroachment on which it is right to punish.
nor will the acts of a smaller portion bind the greater, an argument used in favour of the Romans against the Gauls.
The Gauls therefore might have put to death the Fabii, whom Livy calls violators of the law of nature.
On the Commonwealth
Ancient people cited as practicing human sacrifice and seizing others' grain by force rather than labor.
the Gauls reckon it base to seek grain by hand, and so, armed, they reap others' fields;
3. [Nonius, 431M] The Carthaginians first, by their trafficking and their wares, imported into Greece avarice and ostentation and the insatiable cravings of all things.
Consolation to Helvia
Gallic and Germanic peoples cited among the groups illustrating migration across Europe.
Greeks have thrust themselves into Gaul, Gauls into Greece;
31. through trackless places, through the unknown, human fickleness has made its way. They dragged with them their children and wives and parents heavy with age. Some, tossed by long wandering, did not choose their place by judgement, but in weariness seized the nearest; others made themselves a right by arms in a foreign land; certain peoples, while they sought the unknown, the sea swallowed up; …
On Benefits
A people used in Seneca's hypothetical example of a prince granting citizenship collectively, testing whether individuals owe gratitude for benefits given to the group.
2 says he, "if a prince shall give the citizenship to all the Gauls, immunity to the Spaniards, will individuals owe nothing on this account?
Adversus Judaeos
A people named among the many nations who have believed in and obeyed Christ.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …
Apologeticum
People named as practicing human sacrifice to Mercury.
Among the Gauls a fuller age is slaughtered to Mercury.