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itain, _the hundred of Caishow_, in _Hertfordshire_; they send ambassadors and submit to Caesar, G. v. 21 Caesil[=i]num, a town in Italy, _Castelluzzo_ Cassivellaunus, chosen commander-in-chief of the confederate Britons, G. v. 11; endeavours in vain to stop the course of Caesar's conquests, 18; is obliged to submit, and accept Caesar's terms, 22 Cassius, Pompey's lieutenant, burns Caesar's fleet in Sicily, C. iii. 101 Castellum Menapiorum, _Kessel_, a town in Brabant, on the river Neerse, not far from the Maese Cast[)i]cus, the son of Catam['a]ntaledes, solicited by Orgetorix to invade the liberty of his country, G. i. 3 Castra Posthumiana, a town in Hispania Baetica, _Castro el Rio_ Castra Vetera, an ancient city in Lower Germany, in the duchy of Cleves; some say where _Santon_, others where _Byrthon_ now is Castulonensis Saltus, a city of Hispania Tarraconensis, _Castona la Vieja_ Cativulcus takes up arms against the Romans at the instigation of Indutiomarus, G. v. 24; poisons himself, vi. 31 Cato of Utica, the source of his hatred to Caesar, C. i. 4; made praetor of Sicily, prepares for war, and abdicates his province, 30 Catur[)i]ges, an ancient people of Gaul, inhabiting the country of _Embrun_, or _Ambrun_, or _Chagres_; oppose Caesar's passage over the Alps, G. i. 10 Cavalry, their institution and manner of fighting among the Germans, G. i. 48, iv. 2 Cavarillus taken and brought before Caesar, G. vii. 62 Cavarinus, the Senones attempt to assassinate him, G. v. 54; Caesar orders him to attend him with the cavalry of the Senones, vi. 5 Cebenna Mons, the mountains of the _Cevennes_, in Gaul, separating the Helvians from Auvergne Celeja, a city of Noricum Mediterraneum, now _Cilley_ Celtae, a people of Thrace, about the mountains of Rhodope and Haemus Celtae, an ancient people of Gaul, in that part called Gallia Comata, between the Garumna (_Garonne_) and Sequana (_Seine_), from whom that country was likewise called Gallia Celtica. They were the most powerful of the three great nations that inhabited Gaul, and are supposed to be the original inhabitants of that extensive country. It is generally supposed that they called themselves _Gail_, or _Gael_, out of which name the Greeks formed their [Greek: Keltai], and the Romans Galli. Some, however, deduce the name from the Gaelic "_Ceilt,_" an inhabitant of the forest Celt[)i]b[=e]ri, an ancient people of Spain, descended from
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