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Gauls meaning
plural of Gaul
Example sentences (20)
The former says that the Gauls were to the north of the Celts, but that the Romans referred to both as Gauls (in linguistic terms the Gauls were certainly Celts).
The Aedui were the first of the Gauls to receive from the emperor Claudius the distinction of jus honorum, thus being the first Gauls permitted to become senators.
A pair of indomitable Gauls battle Romans in this animated series based on the much-loved comics.
Fortified overbuilt Roman camps where troops practised absurdly geometric formations contrasted sharply with the open airy cluster of elegant modest hutments where Gauls carried on in merry abandon till they were called to war.
Or escape into another world like the French do, with a comic book or graphic novel such as the long-running Asterix series about Gauls resisting Roman occupation.
According to Caesar, the captured Roman soldiers were ordered to pass through under a yoke set up by the triumphant Gauls, a dishonour that called for both public as well as private vengeance.
According to Julius Caesar the Gauls took refuge in these caves during the resistance.
Agricola's parents were from noted Gallo-Roman political families of senatorial rank, his ancestors were Romanised Gauls of local origin.
All eight legions and supporting units of Gauls were required to do that.
Amédée Thierry (Histoire des Gaulois, 1828), one of the inventors of the "historic race" of Gauls, could confidently equate them with the Cornish ("les Cornouailles").
As a result of Rome's defeat at the Ticinus, all the Gauls except the Cenomani were induced to join the Carthaginian cause.
As a result of this victory, the heterogeneous force of insurgent Gauls, Africans, Iberians and Numidians had more military equipment than they could use themselves and sold the surplus via Egyptian traders to the Romans.
Battle of Lake Trasimene main Hannibal quartered his troops for the winter with the Gauls, whose support for him had abated.
Celts (also known as Belgae and Gauls ) invaded Normandy in successive waves from the 4th to the 3rd century BC.
Everyone expected to soon see the new Gauls outside of the gates of Rome.
From the 3rd century BC the Gauls adopted coinage.
Gauls are associated with Celtic languages, and the term Germani is associated with Germanic languages, but Caesar did not discuss languages in detail (though he did say that Belgic Gaul was different from Celtic Gaul in language).
Having secured his position in northern Italy by this victory, Hannibal quartered his troops for the winter amongst the Gauls.
Hellenistic folk etymology connected the name of the Galatians (Γαλάται, Galátai) to the supposedly "milk-white" skin (γάλα, gála "milk") of the Gauls.
His sudden appearance among the Gauls of the Po Valley, moreover, enabled him to detach those tribes from their new allegiance to the Romans before the Romans could take steps to check the rebellion.