AEDUI, HAEDUT

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AEDUI, HAEDUT or HEDUI (Gr. A'Sovot), a Gallic people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the country between the Arar (Saone) and Liger (Loire). The statement in Strabo (ii. 3. 192) that they dwelt between the Arar and Dubis (Doubs) is incorrect. Their territory thus included the greater part of the modern departments of Saone-et-Loire, Cote d'Or and Nievre. According to Livy (v. 34), they took part in the expedition of Bellovesus into Italy in the 6th century B.C. Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of

brothers

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

and kinsmen of the Roman people. When the Sequani, their neighbours on the other side of the Arar, with whom they were continually quarrelling, invaded their country and subjugated them with the assistance of a German chieftain named Ariovistus, the

Aedui

AEDUI, HAEDUT

sent Divitiacus, the druid, to Rome to appeal to the senate for help, but his mission was unsuccessful. On his arrival in Gaul (58 s.c.), Caesar restored their independence. In spite of this, the

Aedui

AEDUI, HAEDUT

joined the Gallic coalition against Caesar (B.G. vii. 42), but after the surrender of Vercingetorix at Alesia
were glad to return .to their allegiance.

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

dismantled their native

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

Bibracte

BIBRACTE

on Mont Beuvray, and substituted a new town with a half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum (mod. Autun). During the reign of Tiberius (A.D. 21), they revolted under Julius Sacrovir, and seized Augustodunum, but were soon put down by Gains Silius (Tacitus, Ann. iii. 43-46). The Aedui were the first of the Gauls to receive from the emperor

Claudius

the distinction of the jus honorum. The oration of Eumenius (q.v.), in which he pleaded for the restoration of the schools of his native place Augustodunum, shows that the

district

DISTRICT

was neglected. The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

magistrate

MAGISTRATE (Lat. magistratus, from magister, master, properly a public office, hence the person holding such an office)

of the Aedui in Caesar's time was called Vergobretus (according to Mommsen, " judgment-worker "), who was elected annually, possessed powers of life and death, but was forbidden to go beyond the frontier. Certain clientes, or small communities, were also dependent upon the Aedui.
See A. E. Desjardins, Geographie de la Gaule, ii. (1876-1893) ; T. R. Holmes, Caesar's Conquest of Gaul (1899).

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