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  • The gloss explains the second line thus: 'Dicitur ab alleos quod est alienum, et broge quod est fides, quasi alienus a fide'; and thus we learn that the Allobroges were a Burgundian people who were always breaking faith with the Romans.

    The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

  • There were in the city at this time certain delegates from a people called the Allobroges, who inhabited the lower part of Savoy.

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • There were in the city at this time certain delegates from a people called the Allobroges, who inhabited the lower part of Savoy.

    Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Cicero ignored him, broke open the letter, and read it out loud: From Caius Cornelius Cethegus to Catugnatus, chief of the Allobroges—greetings!

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • The Allobroges, who control the Alpine passes, have just sent a delegation to the Senate to complain about the level of taxes they have to submit to Rome.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • In 61 BC, in Gaul, the mighty warrior Brennus witnesses the destruction of his tribe the Allobroges by Roman armies and is himself captured and sold into slavery as a gladiator.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Carla 2009

  • In 61 BC, in Gaul, the mighty warrior Brennus witnesses the destruction of his tribe the Allobroges by Roman armies and is himself captured and sold into slavery as a gladiator.

    The Forgotten Legion, by Ben Kane. Book review Carla 2009

  • Allobroges, to Syrians, and to some of the inhabitants of Sichem.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Servetus, who is said to have discovered the circulation of the blood, was roasted by a slow fire, in a little town of the Allobroges, ruled by a theologian of

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Allobroges and the Picts; because there are many Roman writings and monuments remaining, but there are none of the other nations of western Europe.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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