aedui

Among the aedui too there were fiery spirits who cherished the old traditions, and saw in the Roman alliance a prelude to annexation.

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

The Romans, anxious naturally to extend their influence in the country without direct interference, had taken the aedui under their protectorate.

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

Ariovistus, in turn, had pressed the aedui still harder, and had forced them to renounce the Roman alliance.

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

The aedui, three years before Caesar came, had appealed to Rome for assistance, and the Senate had promised that the Governor of Gaul should support them.

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

The aedui again had their clients in the inferior tribes; and a Romano-aeduan authority of a shadowy kind had thus penetrated through the whole nation.

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

The first place had rested generally with the aedui, a considerable people who occupied the central parts of France, between the Upper Loire and the

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

Among the aedui, and throughout the country, the patriots were in the ascendant, and Ariovistus and his Germans were welcomed as friends and deliverers.

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

The few thousand families which were first introduced had been followed by fresh detachments; they had attacked and beaten the aedui, out of whose territories they intended to carve a settlement for themselves.

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856