Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words

Index

Romans are listed under the conventional English forms of their names if such exist, otherwise under their nomina. Aedui, 9, 70, 177, 180, 182–184, 235, 247 agrimensores, 32–39, 41– 45, 227 Alesia, 32, 65, 80 –82, 89, 104, 118, 125, 148, 206 amicitia, 162 Ariovistus, 64 – 65, 74, 85–86, 100, 124, 152, 168, 177, 180, 184 –187 assizes (conventus), 143–144 audience, 12–15, 146 –147, 193–194, 211 Aurunculeius Cotta, Lucius. See Titurius Avaricum, 78–80, 84, 97–98, 100, 188–189 bandits (latrones), 26 –27, 61, 63, 230 barbarian, 2, 23, 31, 66 – 67, 82, 85, 117, 120, 125, 151–152, 157, 215–216, 231, 251 borrowings, cultural, 76 –77, 79, 101, 233, 236 Britain, 12, 48, 57, 93, 229 Caesar, Gaius Julius (as author), 32 B Civ, 143, 145, 208, 231, 239, 241 composition of BG, 9–15 credibility, 1, 191 governor, 6, 15, 30, 67, 145, 153 cannibalism, 110, 115, 117 Cato, Marcus Porcius (the Elder), 7, 47, 67, 164, 168–170 Cato, Marcus Porcius (the Younger), 15 celeritas, 8 Celts, 16 –18, 29, 47, 50 –52, 65, 231–232 centuriation, 33–34, 37–39, 42– 43 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 7, 135–136, 141, 146 –147, 148, 163–165, 167, 170 –175, 189, 203, 205 Brut., 136, 141 Font., 56 Leg., 130 Off., 158–161, 162, 178, 211 PC, 1, 11, 21–23, 56, 69, 172–175, 183, 207, 211 Rep., 158–159, 177 letters, 6, 146, 171–172 Cicero, Quintus Tullius, 77, 94 –96, 123, 126, 133, 135–136, 151, 153, 247 Cimbri, 51, 96, 115–117, 154, 172, 177, 246 commentarius, 6, 10, 117, 133–155, 225 council (consilium), 93–94, 100 Critognatus, 89–91, 100, 103–104, 107–118, 120, 129, 142, 237 cruelty, 103–104, 117, 236 culltellatio, 34, 42, 228 Index 270 caesar in gaul and rome defiles (angustiae), 26 –27, 227 deformation. See Caesar, Gaius Julius, credibility dignitas, 83, 118 direct discourse, 142, 231 discipline, 90 –92, 96, 97–98, 100, 102, 105, 204 –205 discourse, 4 – 6, 8, 50, 164, 223–224, 226 effeminacy, 16, 83, 89–90, 114 exemplum, 7, 116, 118 fides, 30, 120, 159, 160, 171–172, 178, 179, 186, 188, 207 focalization, 9–10, 30, 152, 153–155, 243 folk theory, 158, 166, 170, 203, 249–250 forests, 25–27, 61– 62, 68, 227 freedom. See slavery Gaul, Cisalpine, 30 –31, 67, 127, 129 genre, 4 –5, 11, 36, 112, 117, 133–134, 140, 152–153, 224 Gergovia, 85, 88, 92–93, 123 Germans, 23, 26, 29–31, 48, 50 –52, 60 – 62, 64 –70, 82, 84, 86 –87, 95, 122, 124 –125, 151, 177, 180, 183, 184 –187, 230, 232 Helvetii, 23, 32, 59, 70, 74, 84, 96, 123, 151, 175–178, 182, 188 hierarchy. See discipline hills, 27, 40 – 42, 227 Hirtius, Aulus, 10 –11, 141, 147–148, 205 history (ancient genre), 5– 6, 10, 13, 141–142, 147–148, 241 ideology, 209–210, 212–213, 250 –251 “imagined community,” 114, 129 indirect discourse, 9–10, 241 injury, 159, 167, 173, 178, 179–180, 247 intention, 8 interpolation, 11–12, 225 intertextuality, 2–8, 59, 208, 211–212, 214, 224 Italy, 14, 129–131 justification, 7, 45, 69, 82, 120, 157–189, 206 –207 Labienus, Titus, 81, 88, 92, 93, 94, 123, 142, 227, 234 Lakoff, George, 20, 23, 226, 237 language, philosophy of, 19–20, 119–120 legati, 13, 62, 71, 102, 131 Livy, 91, 163–164, 196, 198, 199, 228–229, 230, 237, 245 marshes, 25–27, 40, 227 mountains. See hills narrator, “third person,” 145, 149, 150 –155, 193–194 Nervii, 8, 16, 18–19, 54, 77–78, 87 “noble savage,” 66, 85–86, 104, 121–122, 125, 195, 231 nomads, 16, 31, 55, 57–58, 60, 62, 68, 99, 230 objectivity effect, 145, 149, 151–152 officers, Roman, 13, 76, 86, 91, 93–96, 131, 234 –235 opus Gallicum, 79–80, 101 Orgetorix, 153–154 Piso, Gnaeus Calpurnius, 7, 21–22, 174 plunder, 198, 205 point of view. See focalization politics, domestic Roman, 6, 31, 97, 104 –105, 124, 126 –132, 173, 226, 236, 247 Pompey, Gnaeus, 22–23, 47, 96, 130, 199, 205, 213, 232, 249 index 271 Posidonius, 1, 16 –17, 47, 50, 67, 134, 147, 163, 229 propaganda, 207–214. See also justification religion, 56, 129, 164, 167–168, 204 Rhine, 30, 31, 51–52, 54, 60...