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2.11. nobilissimus, of highest birth. Popular revolutions had, among the Gauls as among the Greeks and Romans. mostly dispossessed the old chiefs, or kings; and they had established an annual magistrate calledVergobret ch. 16). But the heads of the ruling families would naturally be ambitious to recover what they could of the old class power and Orgetorix is represented as aspiring to create a monarchy in Gaul.


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