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Vergasillaunus

a chief of the Arverni and a consobrinus of Vercingetorix, was one of the generals of the latter in the war against Caesar in B. C. 52. He was defeated and taken prisoner in the great battle which was fought to relieve the at the siege of Alesia. (Caes. Gal. 7.76, 83, 88.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.