Drapes

Family: Senones · Role: leader · First appears: The Gallic War, Book VIII, 23–30

After his defeat, Drapes, a Senonian who had gathered men and disrupted Roman supplies during the revolt, joined forces with Lucterius and marched toward the province with five thousand men. Caius Caninius Rebilus pursued them with two legions. At Uxellodunum, Drapes and Lucterius seized the town and persuaded its inhabitants to join them; they left two thousand men to hold the garrison and marched out with the rest.

Caius Caninius Rebilus’s forces defeated Drapes’s camp, and Drapes was captured. He abstained from food for several days and perished.

Relationship record

Life events

• Drapes and Luterius joined forces while marching toward the province.(The Gallic War, Book VIII, 23–30)
  • With: Lucterius
  • “Drapes, a Senonian (who in the beginning of the revolt of Gaul, had collected from all quarters men of desperate fortunes, invited the slaves to liberty, called in the exiles of the whole kingdom, given an asylum to robbers, and intercepted the Roman baggage and provisions), was marching to the province with five thousand men, being all he could collect after the defeat, and that Luterius a Cadurcian who, as it has been observed in a former commentary, had designed to make an attack on the Province in the first revolt of Gaul, had formed a junction with him”
• Caninius pursued Drapes and Luterius with two legions to protect the province.(The Gallic War, Book VIII, 23–30 · 📍 the province)
  • With: Caius Caninius Rebilus Lucterius
  • “Caius Caninius went in pursuit of them with two legions, lest great disgrace might be incurred from the fears or injuries done to the Province by the depredations of a band of desperate men.”
• Drapes and Luterius seized Uxellodunum and persuaded its inhabitants to join them.(The Gallic War, Book VIII, 31–39 · 📍 Uxellodunum)
  • With: Lucterius
  • “with his own and Drapes' troops he seized Uxellodunum, a town formerly in vassalage to him and strongly fortified by its natural situation; and prevailed on the inhabitants to join him.”
• Drapes and Luterius left two thousand men in the garrison and marched out with the rest.(The Gallic War, Book VIII, 31–39 · 📍 Uxellodunum)
  • With: Lucterius
  • “The scheme having met with approbation, the following night Drapes and Luterius, leaving two thousand men in the garrison, marched out of the town with the rest.”
• Caninius's forces defeated Drapes's camp, and Drapes was captured.(The Gallic War, Book VIII, 31–39)
  • With: Caius Caninius Rebilus
  • “Immediately all the cohorts attack them on every side; and having either killed or made prisoners of them all, gained great booty. In that battle, Drapes himself was taken prisoner.”
• Drapes abstained from food and perished.(The Gallic War, Book VIII, 40–47)
  • “Drapes, who I have said was taken by Caninius, either through indignation and grief arising from his captivity, or through fear of severer punishments, abstained from food for several days, and thus perished.”

The Gallic War, Book VIII, 23–30

• friends with Lucterius “and that Luterius a Cadurcian who, as it has been observed in a former commentary, had designed to make an attack on the Province in the first revolt of Gaul, had formed a junction with him”
• enemies with Caius Caninius Rebilus “Caius Caninius went in pursuit of them with two legions”

The Gallic War, Book VIII, 31–39

• friends with Lucterius “But Crapes in conjunction with Literius, knowing that Caninius was at hand with the legions, and that they themselves could not without certain destruction enter the boundaries of the province, whilst an army was in pursuit of them, and being no longer at liberty to roam up and down and pillage, halt in the country of the Cadurci”
• enemies with Caius Caninius Rebilus “In that battle, Drapes himself was taken prisoner.”

The Gallic War, Book VIII, 40–47

• enemies with Caius Caninius Rebilus “Drapes, who I have said was taken by Caninius, either through indignation and grief arising from his captivity, or through fear of severer punishments, abstained from food for several days, and thus perished.”

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Extracted from the original text of Caesar's Commentaries — The Gallic War and The Civil War. Made with Rho MD.