Cisalpine Gaul love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A section of ancient Gaul south and east of the Alps in present-day Italy.

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Examples

  • In the year 50, Cæsar went into Cisalpine Gaul, that is, into the region which is now known as Northern Italy, and was received as a great conqueror.

    The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

  • This mode of service, it is true, became obsolete in process of time, concurrently with the dangers which it was shaped to meet; for the whole of Italy proper, together with that part of Italy called Cisalpine Gaul, was at length reduced to unity and obedience by the almighty republic.

    The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Julia Serano, which is about as value-free and non-derogatory as you can get - it's a standard Latin prefix, as in 'Cisalpine Gaul'.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk Roz Kaveney 2010

  • Back in the summer, when they had defeated two consuls and the governor of Cisalpine Gaul, the insurgents could never have guessed that it would come to this.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Crassuss new legionaries already were Roman citizens, but the troops in Cisalpine Gaul were not.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Back in the summer, when they had defeated two consuls and the governor of Cisalpine Gaul, the insurgents could never have guessed that it would come to this.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Crassuss new legionaries already were Roman citizens, but the troops in Cisalpine Gaul were not.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • They crossed into the province of Cisalpine Gaul, Gaul on this side of the Alps, as the Romans called northernmost Italy.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • They crossed into the province of Cisalpine Gaul, Gaul on this side of the Alps, as the Romans called northernmost Italy.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • They crossed into the province of Cisalpine Gaul, Gaul on this side of the Alps, as the Romans called northernmost Italy.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

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