CAESAR, GAUL AND ROME

While Clodius was causing unrest in Rome, the expedition to Gaul, by dint of gamble and tactics of aggression, was producing its first results. The conquest of that vast territory – which included not only present-day France but also Belgium and the area of Germany and Switzerland west of the Rhine – would bring an end to the nightmare of invasion from the north, which had begun when Brennus sacked Rome and was dramatically revived at the end of the second century, when Marius, several times consul, had managed to halt the Teutonic hordes in Narbonese Gaul and the Cimbri