Person

Viridovix

fl. 56 BCE · 1st century BCE

Viridovix was a chief of the Unelli of the Cotentin peninsula in Gaul who led a coalition against Julius Caesar in 56 BCE, joined by the Eburovices and Lexovii. Caesar's legate Quintus Titurius Sabinus lured the Gallic army into attacking his fortified camp and routed it. Viridovix is known only from Caesar's account in his Commentaries on the Gallic War.

Mentioned in 3 state histories

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