For this Beuvray is no other than Bibracte, the Gaulish oppidum that Cæsar speaks of as "Oppido Aeduorum longe maximo et copiosissimo.
Bibracte, the oppidum on the wooded hills, will echo no more to the shouts of Gauls acclaiming their general or their victory.
But one morning the warriors of the Oppidum saw a wooden tower rising at the extremity of the two galleries.
These conditions were as follows:--The Oppidum was to be placed under the guard of the warriors of the vale and the followers of Ditovix exclusively of all others.
At the other posts around the Oppidum he placed men unaccustomed to fight and unprovided with arms, but who were yet able to offer some resistance if the enemy should present themselves.
Seeing themselves supported, the Roman guard took the offensive, and pressed on to the platform of the bridge, hewing down the remnant of the defenders of the Oppidum like bushes in a thicket.
He himself took up a position in the centre of the Oppidum with a chosen band, that he might be able to assist the quarter that should be most closely pressed.
Although the cutting dug by the defenders between the Oppidum and the plateau was only a bowshot from the rampart, in a few hours it was almost entirely filled up, consolidated, and levelled.
The besieger's preparations appeared formidable, and the camp opposite the northern salient of the Oppidum presented a busy scene.
Those of the enemies who had succeeded in penetrating into the Oppidum were killed or captured.
The Oppidum was then partly covered with habitations and gardens belonging to the descendants of Sigild and Ditovix's warriors.
Quartered in the Oppidum with the warriors of Sigild, the followers of Ditovix assumed a domineering air on the strength of the service rendered to the inhabitants of the Val d'Avon, and whose importance they were incessantly magnifying.
In addition to this, Catognatus had a cutting dug at a hundred paces from the Oppidum between its northern salient and the plateau.
As they thus had to present bloody sacrifices, which was against their ritual, they did not admit these gods, at least into the towns; nullum Aegypti oppidum intra muros suos aut Saturni aut Sarapis fanum recepit.
For urbs and oppidum in apposition with a Locative, see § 169, 4.
This is what the author of the VIIIth book De Bello Gallico expresses by these words: Infima vallis totum paene montem cingebat in quo positum erat praeruptum undique oppidum Uxellodunum.
Pervenit in oppidum Cirtam, quo initio profectus intenderat); but Marius's plans may have been modified by intervening events.
In choosing the situation of one's estate) oppidum validum prope siet aut mare aut amnis, qua naves ambulant, aut via bona celebrisque.
During this time the garrison of the oppidum attacked the redoubts of Rebilus several times, which obliged him to interrupt the work of the countervallation, which, indeed, he had not sufficient forces to defend.
Lots were now drawn in the oppidum to decide which shed each chariot was to start from, and in which naissus each was to run.
Videō oppidum ubi Galba habitat», I see the town where Galba lives «ubi» is called a relative conjunction because it is equivalent to a relative pronoun.
Oppidum erat parvum magnitūdine sed magnum multitūdine hominum», the town was small in size but great in population.
Pontem faciunt quō facilius oppidum capiant» They build a bridge that they may take the town more easily (lit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oppidum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
