Allobrox

I. acc. sing. Allobroga, Juv. 7, 214), the Allobroges, in Ptol. Ἀλλόβρυγες, a warlike people in Gallia Narbonensis, on the east side of the Rhone, and to the north of l'Isère, now Savoy, Dép. de l'Isère, and a part of the Dép. de l'Ain, Caes. B. G. 1, 6 al.; Cic. Div. 1, 12, 21; Liv. 21, 31; Flor. 3, 2; cf. Mann. Gall. 57 and 91.—The sing. is found only in the poets, Hor. Epod. 16, 6: qui totiens Ciceronem Allobroga (i. e. barbare loquentem) dixit, Juv. 7, 214.—Hence, deriv. adj.: Allō^brŏgĭcus, a, um, Allobrogian: vinum, Cels. 4, 5: vitis, Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 3 al.—Hence, a surname of Q. Fabius Maximus, as conqueror of the Allobroges, Vell. 2, 10.