Avaricum

“Avaricum on a tiny scale, and flimsier by far,” he said.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

“Avaricum on a tiny scale, and flimsier by far,” he said.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

[- 34 -] They accordingly went back to the Bituriges, captured Avaricum, a city of theirs, and in it maintained a resistance a long time, for the wall was hard to approach, being bordered on one side by almost trackless swamps and on the other by a river with a swift current.

Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). Cassius Dio

The surprise of Genatum, the capture of Avaricum, seemed at first to promise a speedy victory to his arms; but a repulse which he suffered before the walls of Geronia was the signal for the whole of Gaul to unite with the insurgents.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

Caesar first besieged and took Avaricum, whose occupants were massacred, and then invested Gergovia (near the Puy-de-Dôme), the capital of the Arverni, but suffered a severe repulse and was forced to raise the siege.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Avaricum, at Troys, at Thoulouse, Rouen and many other places, running from city to city, towns, and villages, through the kingdom.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

They would surrender every other city to the flames, but not their loved capital, not Avaricum.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

But when the fate of Avaricum (Bourges) came to be discussed, the hearts of the

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

Auron, the gallant Bituriges had their capital, Avaricum.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

He takes care that those who fled to him on the storming of Avaricum should be provided with arms and clothes.

Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius. 1869