Gaul
place · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Continental Celts
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman province and region central to the Caesar/Germans example and the Vercingetorix example.
But Caesar ought to have contented himself with driving the Germans out of Gaul, the province assigned him, without pursuing them into their own country, especially as there was no farther danger to be apprehended from them;
For instance, among the Latins, although the terms principality and kingdom are generally opposed to each other, when Caesar says, that the father of Vercingetorix held the principality of Gaul, and was put to death for aiming at sovereign power;
An example of evils, that ought by all possible means to be avoided, is furnished by the consultations among the states of Gaul, who, according to the account of Tacitus, deliberated, whether they should make choice of liberty or peace.
Letters
Region whose bishops, with Italy's, are addressed in letter 243.
To the bishops of Italy and Gaul, concerning the condition and confusion of the churches.
Institutes of Roman Law
Region where Caesar's campaigns generated large numbers of slaves.
Julius Caesar retrieved his shattered fortunes by enormous operations in the slave market during his campaign in Gaul.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The Continental region inhabited by the Gaulish Celts described by Caesar.
He says that if a Celt of Gaul refused to abide by a Druid judgment he was excommunicated:
We are now able to compare Cæsar’s account of the Gauls with the evidence concerning a Celtic community which the Brehon tracts supply;