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  • These assemble at a fixed period of the year in a consecrated place in the territories of the Carnutes, which is reckoned the central region of the whole of Gaul.

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

  • The Carnunteni, whom Cæsar calls Carnutes, were partly in the middle basin of the same river.

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • For nearly five months I have been learning the language of the Carnutes of central Long-haired Gaul, and the language of the Cimbric Germans.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • One is a Gaul of the Carnutes, the tribe which controls the whole Celtic religion.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • Caesar in Carnutēs, Andēs Turonēsque legiōnēs dēdūcit, _Caesar leads his legions into the territory of the Carnutes, Andes, and Turones_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • The Arverni, the same people whom he presently calls the Aruveni, of the mountains of Auvergne, and the Carnutes of the country around Orleans.

    Cæsar Plutarch 1909

  • He invited the surplus population of six tribes-the Bituriges, the Averni, the Senones, the Aedui, the Ambarri, the Carnutes, and the Aulerci.

    The History of Rome, Vol. I 1905

  • The fact that in Caesar's time its main centre in Gaul was in the territory of the Carnutes, the tribe which has given its name to

    Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times Edward Anwyl 1890

  • The Druids met at a fixed time of the year in a consecrated spot in the territory of the Carnutes, the district which was regarded as being in the centre of the whole of

    Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times Edward Anwyl 1890

  • Two he placed among the Turoni, near the confines of the Carnutes, to keep in awe the entire tract of country bordering on the ocean; the other two he placed in the territories of the Lemovices, at a small distance from the Arverni, that no part of Gaul might be without an army.

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

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