people
the Gauls
Gauls
also: Galli
The Celtic peoples of Gaul, stock foes of Roman epic battle-narrative that Horace says he cannot write.
Reading notes
- The Odes §3.16 Gallic
Whose pastures Horace's flocks do not crowd.
- The Odes §4.14 Gaul
'The land of Gaul, that does not fear death,' hears Augustus.
- The Epodes §9 Gauls
The Gallic cavalry who deserted Antony to Octavian, 'hailing Caesar,' at the time of Actium.
- The Satires §2.1 the Gauls
The Celtic peoples of Gaul, with the Parthians a stock subject of martial epic that Horace pleads unfit to write.