10-31-2012, 10:59 PM
Hello Marcus,
do you remember more or less the period or the place (central Italy, Cisalpine Gaul, Narbonensis, …) of that battle which you speak of?
At the moment there is not a specific battle that come to my mind where specifically Gallic prisoners were massacred… but I will check better!
To make some examples of casualties and number of prisoners during wars that involved Gallic tribes and Romans: the battle of Telamone (225 BC) Polybius speaks of 40.000 dead Gouls and 10.000 prisoners including Concolitano (the king of the Gaesati), but there are some “apories”. Sometimes the sources tend to exaggerate with numbers, in the war against the Arverni and the Allobroges (122 -120 BC) for example the victims of the Arverni are 130.000 men for Plinius, or 120.000 for Appian (that assign only 15 dead at the Romans in the battle against Bituit!). At the end of the Caesar’s conquest Plutarch speak of 1 million dead and 1 million prisoners (Caes, 15 5), and Pliny the Elder about 1.192.000 casualties (Nat. His. VII, 92) of a population that is calculated around 8 million inhabitants (25% of the entire population!)
do you remember more or less the period or the place (central Italy, Cisalpine Gaul, Narbonensis, …) of that battle which you speak of?
At the moment there is not a specific battle that come to my mind where specifically Gallic prisoners were massacred… but I will check better!
To make some examples of casualties and number of prisoners during wars that involved Gallic tribes and Romans: the battle of Telamone (225 BC) Polybius speaks of 40.000 dead Gouls and 10.000 prisoners including Concolitano (the king of the Gaesati), but there are some “apories”. Sometimes the sources tend to exaggerate with numbers, in the war against the Arverni and the Allobroges (122 -120 BC) for example the victims of the Arverni are 130.000 men for Plinius, or 120.000 for Appian (that assign only 15 dead at the Romans in the battle against Bituit!). At the end of the Caesar’s conquest Plutarch speak of 1 million dead and 1 million prisoners (Caes, 15 5), and Pliny the Elder about 1.192.000 casualties (Nat. His. VII, 92) of a population that is calculated around 8 million inhabitants (25% of the entire population!)
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SM.
ὁπλῖται δὲ ἀγαθοὶ καὶ ἀκροβολισταί (Strabo,IV, 6, 2)
SM.
ὁπλῖται δὲ ἀγαθοὶ καὶ ἀκροβολισταί (Strabo,IV, 6, 2)
