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Cassi

Eth. Cassi in Britain. The name of a population sufficiently eastward to be mentioned by Caesar (Caes. Gal. 5.21); indeed, Cassi-velaunus was their king, and the Oppidum Cassi-velauni (Caes. l.c.) was a stockaded village, probably, in the present Hundred of Cassio-bury.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.