80,000 legionaries and 40,000 auxiliaries and camp followers were killed in Rome's worst defeat since the Battle of Cannae, and the Germans then proceeded to invade Hispania. His smaller force was easily stopped, surrounded, and slaughtered by the Germans, and the Germans swiftly counterattacked, encircled Mallius' legionaries, and massacred his men as well. However, Caepio did not want Mallius to get the credit for defeating the Germanic threat, so he launched his own attack on the Cimbri camp. King Boiorix of the Cimbri attempted to negotiate with Mallius, asking that his tribe be allowed to migrate into Hispania. Caepio only followed Mallius across the river in response to a Senatorial order, but he insisted on having a separate camp. In 105 BC, the 80,000-strong Roman army arrived in Gallia Narbonensis and encamped outside the town of Arausio on the Rhone. Narbo, and Arausio but there are traces, or more, at Forum Domitii. Caepio, descended from one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, resented having to take orders from a commoner, causing division between the two men. Thus they weren't wiped off the map, but they suffered.56 As the Romans made. As Rome's greatest general Gaius Marius was fighting the Jugurthine War in North Africa, command of the army was given to the commoner Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, while the patrician Quintus Servilius Caepio was made his second-in-command. The Battle of Arausio took place on October 6, 105 BC in the midst of the Cimbrian Wars, 113-101BC. Two Roman armies led by Quintus Servilius Caepio and Gnaeus Mallius Maximus were crushed by a much larger Germanic army of Cimbri and Teutons in present-day southern France in Rome's worst defeat since the Battle of Cannae during the Punic Wars.įollowing the disastrous Battle of Burdigala in 107 BC, the Roman Senate became aware of the threat of the Germanic Cimbri and Teutons and prepared an army of 80,000 troops to face them in battle. At Vaison, a few miles from Orange, there are some remains of the ancient aqueduct.The Battle of Arausio was fought on 6 October 105 BC during the Cimbrian War. Orange, Vaucluse Orange Roman theatre Wikipedia. The amphitheatre, of which some remains existed till recently, has entirely disappeared, the stones having been carried off for building. Arausio was a local Celtic water god who gave his name to the town of Arausio ( Orange). But this arch probably belongs to a later period than the age of Marius. Marius, the conqueror of the Teutones at Aix. I find it rather unlikely simply because 80,000 men is truly massive for a single Roman army (Caepio and Mallius Maximus were undoubtedly intended to be a single army. The article lists 80,000-120,000 of Romans killed (not just casualties or captured. On one of the attics the name “Mario” still exists, which has given rise to the opinion that the arch was erected in honour of C. I recently came across a Wikipedia article on the Battle of Arausio during the Cimbrian war. Near the town is a triumphal arch, about 60 feet high, with three archways, of which the central arch is larger than the other two. Orange contains a great number of Roman remains. Prior to the Battle of Arausio, how long had it been since a Roman army. The name Secundani denotes some soldiers or cohorts of the Secunda legio, which we must suppose to have been settled here.Ī medal of Goltzius, if genuine, confirms this. Map showing Jutland the migration of the Cimbri and Teutoni with Roman battles. ARA´NTIA ARAPHEN ARAR ARARAT ARARUS ARATISPI ARAURIS ARAUSIO This text is part of: Greek and Roman Materials View text. 9.1', 'denarius') All Search Options view abbreviations. It appears from Mela (2.5), who calls it “Secundanorum Arausio,” to have been made a Roman colony, and Pliny ( 3.4), who has the same expression, calls it a colonia. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) William Smith, LLD, Ed. 185), north of Arelate ( Aries), on the road from Arelate to Vienna ( Vienne), and near the east bank of the Rhone, on a stream which flows into the Rhone. ARAUSIO ARAUSIO ( Ἀραυσίων: Orange), a town in the territory of the Cavares or Cavari (Strab.
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