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AEDUI, HAEDUT

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AEDUI, HAEDUT or HEDUI (Gr. A'Sovot), a Gallic See also:people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the See also:country between the Arar (See also:Saone) and Liger (See also:Loire). The statement in See also:Strabo (ii. 3. 192) that they dwelt between the Arar and Dubis (See also:Doubs) is incorrect. Their territory thus included the greater See also:part of the See also:modern departments of Saone-et-Loire, Cote d'Or and See also:Nievre. According to See also:Livy (v. 34), they took part in the expedition of Bellovesus into See also:Italy in the 6th See also:century B.C. Before See also:Caesar's See also:time they had attached themselves to the See also:Romans, and were honoured with the See also:title of See also:brothers and kinsmen of the See also:Roman people. When the See also:Sequani, their neighbours on the other See also:side of the Arar, with whom they were continually quarrelling, invaded their country and subjugated them with the assistance of a See also:German chieftain named Ariovistus, the Aedui sent Divitiacus, the druid, to See also:Rome to See also:appeal to the See also:senate for help, but his See also:mission was unsuccessful. On his arrival in See also:Gaul (58 s.c.), Caesar restored their See also:independence. In spite of this, the Aedui joined the Gallic See also:coalition against Caesar (B.G. vii.

42), but after the surrender of Vercingetorix at See also:

Alesia were glad to return .to their See also:allegiance. See also:Augustus dismantled their native See also:capital See also:Bibracte on Mont Beuvray, and substituted a new See also:town with a See also:half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum (mod. See also:Autun). During the reign of Tiberius (A.D. 21), they revolted under See also:Julius Sacrovir, and seized Augustodunum, but were soon put down by Gains Silius (See also:Tacitus, See also:Ann. iii. 43-46). The Aedui were the first of the Gauls to receive from the See also:emperor See also:Claudius the distinction of the See also:jus honorum. The oration of See also:Eumenius (q.v.), in which he pleaded for the restoration of the See also:schools of his native See also:place Augustodunum, shows that the See also:district was neglected. The See also:chief See also:magistrate of the Aedui in Caesar's time was called Vergobretus (according to See also:Mommsen, " See also:judgment-worker "), who was elected annually, possessed See also:powers of See also:life and See also:death, but was forbidden to go beyond the frontier. Certain clientes, or small communities, were also dependent upon the Aedui. See A. E.

Desjardins, Geographie de la Gaule, ii. (1876-1893) ; T. R. See also:

Holmes, Caesar's See also:Conquest of Gaul (1899).

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