Ambivaretes
The Ambivaretes ( Latin Ambivareti , also Ambibaretos ) were a Celtic tribe in Gaul , with residence north of the Haeduer area . Caesar ( Bellum Gallicum 7, 75) calls this tribe as clients of the Aedui during the Gallic War ( ... imperant Aeduis atque eorum clientibus Segusiavis , Ambivaretis, Aulercis ... ), where they together with the said tribes 35,000 warriors for the Gallic relief force of Alesia provided should have. In another place ( Bellum Gallicum 7, 90) Caesar says with Ambibaretos apparently the same tribe and reported here is that he after his victory over Vercingetorix his legate Gaius Antistius Reginus with a legion sent to the settlement area of this strain for the winter.
The Ambivaretes must not be confused with the Ambivarites , a people west of the Meuse . Birkhan suspects, however, that there was a close relationship between the Ambivaretes and the Ambivarites, since the similarity of names could go back to ancient emigration.
Except in the cited passage from Caesar, this tribal name is not mentioned in ancient literature.
literature
- Max Him : Ambivareti . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, column 1803.
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
- Harry Mountain: The Celtic Encyclopedia. Universal-Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-58112-890-8 , p. 122 (which, however, mixes Ambivareti and Ambivariti) (books.google.ch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 235, note 1.