Aedui, Haedui or Hedui (Gr. Aidouoi), a Gallic people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the country between the Arar ( Saone) and Liger ( Loire), in today's France.The statement in Strabo (ii. 3. 192) that they dwelt between the Arar and Dubis ( Doubs) is incorrect. Their territory thus included the greater part of the modern departments of Saône-et-Loire, Côte-d'Or and Nièvre. According to Livy (v. 34), they took part in the expedition of Bellovesus into Italy in the 6th century BC.
Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people. When the Sequani , their neighbours on the other side of the Arar , with whom they were continually quarrelling, invaded their country and subjugated them with the assistance of a GermanicThe term Germanic peoples may refer to: the Germanic tribes that in the first millennium were seen as a barbarian threat by the Roman Empire and its successors; the Germanic Christianity that in the second millennium came to dominate much of Northern Euro chieftain named AriovistusAriovistus was king of the germanic tribe of the Suebis, as described in Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars''. Ancient Roman enemies and allies., the Aedui sent Divitiacus , the druidDruidry or Druidism was the religion of the ancient druids, the priestly class in ancient Celtic and Gaulish societies through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in the British Isles. Druidic practices were part of the culture of all the tribal, to RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman to appeal to the senateThe Roman Senate (Lat. Senatus was a deliberative body which was important in the government of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. The word Senatus is derived from the Latin word senex ("old man" or "elder"); literally, "Senate" is understood t for help, but his mission was unsuccessful.
On his arrival in GaulGallia (in English Gaul is the Latin name for the region of western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. In English the word Gaul commonly ref ( 58 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC Years: 63 BC 62 BC 61 BC 60 BC 59 BC 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC 55 BC 54 BC 53 BC Events First year of Julius Caesar's Gallic), Caesar restored their independence. In spite of this, the Aedui joined the Gallic coalition against Caesar (B. G. vii. 42), but after the surrender of VercingetorixVercingetorix ( 72 BC 46 BC), chieftain of the Arverni, led the great Gallic revolt against the Romans in 53- 52 BC. His name in Gaulish means "over-king" ver-rix of warriors cingetos . As described in Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars Rome had secured dominati at Alesia were glad to return to their allegiance. Augustus dismantled their native capital Bibracte on Mont Beuvray , and substituted a new town with a half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum (modern Autun).
In 21, during the reign of Tiberius, they revolted under Julius Sacrovir , and seized Augustudunum , but were soon put down by Gaius Silius ( Tacitus Ann. iii. 43-46). The Aedui were the first of the Gauls to receive from the emperor Claudius the distinction of jus honorum . The oration of Eumenius , in which he pleaded for the restoration of the schools of his native place Augustodunum, shows that the district was neglected. The chief magistrate of the Aedui in Caesar's time was called Vergobretus (according to Mommsen, "judgment-worker"), who was elected annually, possessed powers of life and death, but was forbidden to go beyond the frontier. Certain clientes, or small communities, were also dependent upon the Aedui.
