Pertempuran Arausio merupakan sebuah konflik yang berlangsung pada tanggal 6 Oktober 105 SM, di sekitar kota Arausio (yang sekarang Orange, Vaucluse) dan sungai Rhône. Suku-suku migrasi Cimbri di bawah Boiorix dan Teuton di bawah Teutobod merupakan dua pasukan Romawi, yang dipimpin oleh Prokonsul Quintus Servilius Caepio dan Consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. Namun perbedaan besar di antara para komandan mencegah pasukan Romawi gagal bekerja sama dengan baik.
Referensi
- ^ ᾖν δὲ πρὸ μιᾶς νωνῶν Ὀκτωβρίων "it was one day before the nones of October" Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Lucullus 27.7
- ^ Valerius Antias (1st century BC). Manubiae (quoted by Livy, Periochae, book 67).
- ^ Albert A. Howard (1906). "Valerius Antias and Livy", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 17, p. 161-182.
- ^ Canon Rawlinson (1877). "On the Ethnography of the Cimbri", The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 6, p. 150-158.
- ^ Mommsen, Theodor; The History of Rome, Book IV
- ^ According to Publius Rutilius Rufus (quoted by Granius Licinianus, page 12), the figure concerning regular and light-armed troops was 70,000. Valerius Antias' figure includes 40,000 suppliers.
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