NAMES OF GALLIC TRIBES IN CAESAR’S WORK
NAMES OF GALLIC TRIBES IN CAESAR’S WORK

Summary/Abstract: Caius Julius Caesar, the conqueror of Gaul, described in detail the country, the places and the people he conquered, being considered one of Europe’s earliest sociologists, anthropologists and ethnographers, besides his qualities as a general, politician and personality of the ancient world. His most famous literary masterpiece, De bello Gallico, is not only a chronicle of war, history, ethnic and geographical monograph, but also a true dictionary of names of Gallic tribes, tribe chiefs, gods, regions, rivers, mountains, localities, social structures, etc. Our study deals with the names of the tribes, populations, unions of Gallic tribes which appear in the books De bello Gallico, both in the Gaul conquered by the great and visionary politician, and in Britain, for it is known that the brilliant general of Rome made the first incursion into the territories over the English Channel, a territory that would be partly conquered by the Romans, after Caesar. We will present the Gallic tribes about which Caesar writes in his work in alphabetical order, not in the order of their occurrence in the text of Caesar, while trying to make a lexicographical list and offering the translated term and the Latin one. In Latin, all the names of tribes came within the category of pluralia tantum and proper nouns, being actually considered proper names, with declension only in the plural, for logical reasons, as there were several components in a tribe.

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