This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...magistratus quem vergobretum appellant Edui, qui creatur annuus, et vita: nccisque in suos habet postestatem.' The law against re-election comes out in vii. 32, 33. There are two rival oergobrets, as there have sometimes been rival governors in some American states: ' Summo esse in periculo rem, quod, cum singuli magistratus antiquitus crcari atque regiam potestateni annum obtincre consuessent, duo magistratum gerant, et sc uterque eorum legisbus creatum esse dicat.' Of these Cotus had succeeded his own brother, and had been appointed in an irregular assembly. Caesar therefore, when appealed to, deposed him. 'Quum leges duos ex una familia, vivo utroque, non solum magistratus creari viarent, sed etiam in senatu esse prohiberent.' His rival Convictolitanes, ' qui per sacerdotcs, more civitatis, intermissis magistratibus, esset creatus; potestatem obtinere jusset.' Pomponius Mela (iii. 2) marks their position very emphatically: 'Aquitanorum clarissimi sunt Ausci, Ccltarum Aldui, Belgarum Treveri, urbes ue opulentissimw, in Treveris Augusta, in E uis Augustodunum, in Auscis Climberrum.' See the note in the Recueil, i. 51. We are concerned only with Augusta and Augustodunum. _ 1-Bell. Gall. vi. 12. The resultof the changes is 'Ut longi principes haberentur Edui, secundum locum dignitatis Remi obtinerent.' The Sequan are thus altogether put aside. SceStrabo, iv. 3, where he makes an odd confusion as to the rivers Saone and Doubs. tlbid. vi. 12: 'Summa auctoritas antiquitus mrat in Alduis, magnaeque eorum erant clientelae.' He goes on using the wordas a technical term. rones at Tours, the Senones at Sens, the Bituriges alike in Bourgea the city and in Ber-ry the land. But the...