place
Galliam
also: Gaul
Cisalpine Gaul, the great Roman-administered region of the Po valley between the Apennines and the Alps, divided into Cispadana and Transpadana. Granted Latin status by Cn. Pompeius Strabo (89 BC), full citizenship by Caesar (49), and incorporated into Italy under Augustus. The standing province of Antony in the Philippics (Phil. 3.8-13) and the home of Caesar's veteran legions (Verr. 2.1.36).
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 10.4 §4 what is being done in Cisalpine Gaul, what at Rome in the month of January
Plancus, in Transalpine Gaul, is watching the neighbouring Cisalpine province (held by Decimus Brutus and soon contested by Antony) and the political crisis at Rome, where the new consuls Hirtius and Pansa enter office on 1 January 43 BC.
- Ad Familiares 13.11 §1 the province of Gaul
Cisalpine Gaul, the province north of the Apennines, governed by M. Iunius Brutus in this period; Arpinum's revenue-bearing lands lay within it, which is why a Roman commendation to its governor mattered for the town's finances.
- Ad Familiares 13.11 §1 the province of Gaul
Cisalpine Gaul, the province north of the Apennines under the proconsulship of M. Iunius Brutus in this period; Arpinum's revenue-bearing lands lay within it.
- Third Philippic §13 the flower of Italy
Cisalpine Gaul (the Po valley), densely settled with Roman towns and colonies; Cicero calls it the flower of Italy and the firm support of the empire, whose loyalty he marshals against Antony.