Julius Caesar's Gallic War Commentaries
Public Domain translation of Caesar's Gallic WarPrimary Texts Index
"De Bello Gallico" & Other Commentaries: of Caius Julius Caesar
First Published in This Edition, 1915 Reprinted 1923, 1929
By Thomas De Quincey - The Commentaries of Caius Julius Caesar
Introduction | De Bello Gallico Book I
De Bello Gallico Book II
De Bello Gallico Book III
De Bello Gallico Book IV
De Bello Gallico Book V
De Bello Gallico VI
De Bello Gallico VII
De Bello Gallico VIII
De Bello Civili (Civil Wars): Book 1
DBC (Civil Wars): Book 2
DBC (Civil Wars): Book 3
(Alphabetical) Index
N.B. The numerals refer to the book, the figures to the chapter. G. stands for the Gallic War, C. for the Civil.
T[)a]m[e]sis, the Thames, a celebrated and well-known river of Great Britain; Caesar crosses it, G. v. 18
Tan[)a]is, the Don, a very large river in Scythia, dividing Asia from Europe. It rises in the province of Resan, in Russia, and flowing through Crim-Tartary, runs into the Maeotic Lake, near a city of the same name, now in ruins
T[=a]rb[=e]lli, a people of ancient Gaul, near the Pyrenees, inhabiting about Ays and Bayonne, in the country of Labourd; they surrender to Crassus, G. iii. 27
Tarcundarius Castor, assists Pompey with three hundred cavalry, C. iii. 4
Tarr[)a]c[=i]na, an ancient city of Italy, which still retains the same name
T[=a]rr[)a]co, Tarragona, a city of Spain, which in ancient time gave name to that part of it called Hispania Tarraconensis; by some said to be built by the Scipios, though others say before the Roman conquest, and that they only enlarged it. It stands on the mouth of the river Tulcis, now el Fracoli, with a small haven on the Mediterranean; its inhabitants desert to Caesar, C. i. 21, 60
Tar[=u]s[=a]tes, an ancient people of Gaul, uncertain; according to some, le Teursan; they surrender to the Romans, G. iii. 13, 23, 27
Tasg[=e]t[i]us, chief of the Carnutes, slain by his countrymen, G. v. 25
Taur[=o]is, a fortress of the inhabitants of Massilia
Taurus, an island in the Adriatic Sea, unknown
Taurus Mons, the largest mountain in all Asia, extending from the Indian to the Aegean Seas, called by different names in different countries, viz., Imaus, Caucasus, Caspius, Cerausius, and in Scripture, Ar[)a]rat. Herbert says it is fifty English miles over, and 1500 long
Taximagulus, one of the four kings or princes that reigned over Kent, G. v. 22
Tect[o]s[)a]ges, a branch of the Volcae, G. vi. 24
Tegea, a city of Africa, unknown
Tenchth[e]ri, a people of ancient Germany, bordering on the Rhine, near Overyssel; they and the Usip[e]tes arrive at the banks of the Rhine, iv. 4; cross that river by a stratagem, ibid.; are defeated with great slaughter, ibid. 15
Tergeste, a Roman colony, its inhabitants in the north of Italy cut off by an incursion, G. viii. 24
Terni, an ancient Roman colony, on the river Nare, twelve miles from Spol[=e]tum
Teutomatus, king of the Nitobriges, G. vii. 31
Teut[o]nes, or Teutoni, an ancient people bordering on the Cimbri, the common ancient name for all the Germans, whence they yet call themselves Teutsche, and their country Teutschland; they are repelled from the territories of the Belgae, G. ii. 4
Thebae, Thebes, a city of Boeotia, in Greece, said to have been built by Cadmus, destroyed by Alexander the Great, but rebuilt, and now known by the name of Stives; occupied by Kalenus, C. iii. 55
Therm[o]pylae, a famous pass on the great mountain Oeta, leading into Phocis, in Achaia, now called Bocca di Lupa
Thessaly, a country of Greece, formerly a great part of Macedonia, now called Janna; in conjunction with Aetolia, sends ambassadors to Caesar, C. iii. 34; reduced by Caesar, ibid. 81
Thessalon[=i]ca, a chief city of Macedonia, now called Salonichi
Thracia, a large country of Europe, eastward from Macedonia, commonly called Romania, bounded by the Euxine and Aegean Seas
Th[=u]r[=i]i, or T[=u]r[=i]i, an ancient people of Italy, Torre Brodogneto
Tigur[=i]nus Pagus, one of the four districts into which the Helvetii were divided according to Caesar, the ancient inhabitants of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, cut to pieces by Caesar, G. i. 12
Titus Ampius attempts sacrilege, but is prevented, C. iii. 105
Tol[=o]sa, Thoulouse, a city of Aquitaine, of great antiquity, the capital of Languedoc, on the Garonne
Toxandri, an ancient people of the Low Countries, about Breda, and Gertruydenburgh; but according to some, of the diocese of Liege
Tralles, an ancient city of Lydia in, Asia Minor, Chara, C. iii. 105
Trebonius, one of Caesar's lieutenants, C. i. 36; torn down from the tribunal, C. iii. 21; shows remarkable industry in repairing the works, C. ii. 14; and humanity, C. iii. 20
Trev[i]ri, the people of Treves, or Triers, a very ancient city of Lower Germany, on the Moselle, said to have been built by Trebetas, the brother of Ninus. It was made a Roman colony in the time of Augustus, and became afterwards the most famous city of Gallia Belgica. It was for some time the seat of the western empire, but it is now only the seat of the ecclesiastical elector named from it, G. i. 37; surpass the rest of the Gauls in cavalry, G. ii. 24; solicit the Germans to assist them against the Romans, G. v. 2, 55; their bravery, G. viii. 25; their defeat, G. vi. 8, vii. 63
Tr[i]b[o]ci, or Tr[i]b[o]ces, a people of ancient Germany, inhabiting the country of Alsace, G. i. 51
Tribunes of the soldiers and centurions desert to Caesar, C. i. 5
Tribunes (of the people) flee to Caesar, C. i. 5
Trin[o]bantes, a people of ancient Britain, inhabitants of the counties of Middlesex and Hertfordshire, G. v. 20
Troja, Troy, a city of Phrygia, in Asia Minor, near Mount Ida, destroyed by the Greeks, after a ten years' siege
Tubero is prevented by Attius Varus from landing on the African coast, G. i. 31
Tulingi, an ancient people of Germany, who inhabited about where now Stulingen in Switzerland is; border on the Helvetii, G. i. 5
Tungri, an ancient people inhabiting about where Tongres, in Liege, now is
Tur[=o]nes, an ancient people of Gaul, inhabiting about Tours
Tusc[i], or Hetrusci, the inhabitants of Tuscany, a very large and considerable region of Italy, anciently called Tyrrh[=e]nia, and Etruria
