![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Caesar's troops entered Cicero's camp to find most of the men wounded. Caesar's forces launched a fierce counterattack, and soon put the Belgae to flight. Vastly outnumbered, Caesar ordered his troops to appear confused and frightened, and they successfully lured the Belgae to attack them on ground favourable to the Romans. As they approached the besieged Roman camp, the Belgae moved to engage Caesar's troops. Mobilizing his legions, Caesar immediately marched to Cicero's aid. After a long while, a Roman messenger was finally able to slip through the Belgic lines and get word of the uprising to Caesar. Leading a coalition of rebellious Belgic tribes, Ambiorix surrounded Cicero's camp. A short distance from their camp, the Roman troops were ambushed by the Eburones and massacred.Įlsewhere, another Roman force under Quintus Tullius Cicero, younger brother of the orator Marcus, were wintering amongst the Nervii. Trusting Ambiorix, Sabinus and Cotta's troops left the next morning. Ambiorix deceived the Romans, telling them the attack was made without his consent, and further advised them to flee as a large Germanic force was preparing to cross the Rhine. Roman troops led by Sabinus and Cotta were wintering among the Eburones when they were attacked by them, led by Ambiorix and Cativolcus. This created resentment among the Eburones.Īlthough Julius Caesar had freed him from paying tribute to the Atuatuci, Ambiorix joined Catuvolcus in the winter of 54 BC in an uprising against the Roman forces under Quintus Titurius Sabinus and Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta.Īmbiorix attacking Roman soldiers, relief at the Liège Provincial Palaceīecause a drought had disrupted his grain supply, Caesar was forced to winter his legions among the rebellious Belgic tribes. Each centurion was ordered to make sure the food supplies were delivered to the Roman soldiers. Understandably the starving Eburones were reluctant to do so and Caesar ordered that camps be built near the Eburones' villages. In 54 BC Caesar's troops urgently needed more food, and so the local tribes were forced to give up part of their harvest, which had not been good that year. The Eburones were ruled by Ambiorix and Catuvolcus. There were several tribes in the country who fought against each other frequently. In 57 BC Julius Caesar conquered parts of Gaul and also Belgica (Belgium, modern-day Northern France, Luxembourg, part of present-day Netherlands below the Rhine River and the north-western portion of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). Old Indic adhi-pá- 'protector, ruler, master, king'). Alternatively, Fredrik Otto Lindeman renders Ambiorix as the 'protector-king', by deriving ambio- from the Proto-Indo-European compound *h₂mbhí- péh₃ ('protector' cf. Some scholars translate Ambiorix as the 'king of the surroundings' or 'king of the enclosure', by interpreting ambio- as a thematized form of ambi- ('around, on both sides') meaning 'surroundings' or else 'enclosure' (cf. It is generally accepted that Ambiorix is a Gaulish personal name formed with the prefix ambio- attached to rix ('king'), but the meaning of the first element is debated. ![]() In the nineteenth century Ambiorix became a Belgian national hero because of his resistance against Julius Caesar, as written in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. 54–53 BC) was, together with Cativolcus, prince of the Eburones, leader of a Belgic tribe of north-eastern Gaul ( Gallia Belgica), where modern Belgium is located. Ambiorix ( Gaulish "king of the surroundings", or "king-protector") ( fl. ![]()
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