place
Gallia
Gaul
also: Gaul, Gallia Cisalpina
The Roman province (Cisalpine, Transalpine, or both depending on context). In Pro Quinctio: the partnership's pasture land and Naevius's auction site; in the Caesarian letters: the theatre of the Gallic War.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 4.16 §6 Pompey's Gaul
Cisalpine Gaul, where Pompey's veteran settlers and Caesar's soldiers formed a bloc of votes that Memmius hoped to draw on.
- Ad Atticum 9.13 §4 the auxiliaries of the Gauls
Caesar's nine years of conquest in Gaul (58--50 BC) had given him a hardened army and large levies of Gallic auxiliary cavalry and infantry, the military base from which he now overwhelmed Italy.
- Ad Atticum 14.5 §1 if it is with the standards that the legions are coming from Gaul
Cicero plays on signa, both "signs/omens" and military "standards": pretty omens, but no good omen if the Gallic legions march on Italy under their standards (i.e. ready for war).
- Ad Atticum 14.14 §4 both Gauls
Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul; Antony was manoeuvring to have both provinces assigned to himself with extended terms, the move that precipitated the war with Decimus Brutus.
- Ad Familiares 8.1 §2 the succession to the Gallic provinces
The question of when and how Caesar's command in Gaul would be handed to a successor; the central constitutional struggle of 51-50 BC that led to civil war. Marcellus's stalling here is the opening move.
- Ad Familiares 8.5 §2 the dispute over the Gauls
The unresolved question of replacing Caesar in his Gallic command; until it was settled no successor could be named to Cicero in Cilicia either, so the deadlock pinned Cicero in his province.
- Ad Familiares 10.3 §1 your justice in the administration of the province
Plancus was governing Transalpine Gaul (Gallia Comata) as proconsul in 44 BC, with the founding of colonies such as Lugdunum (Lyon) among his tasks.
- Ad Familiares 10.26 §1 the men of Narbonensis
The province of Gallia Narbonensis (southern Gaul), held by Lepidus; Furnius had reported that to fight there meant either abandoning the provincials or risking a dangerous engagement against Lepidus's forces.
- For Marcus Fonteius §12 province of Gaul
Transalpine Gaul (Gallia Narbonensis), the Roman province across the Alps in southern France, of which Fonteius was governor c. 74-72 BC. The charge under the extortion law concerned his exactions there.