Arverns

English

Noun

Arverns

  1. plural of Arvern
    • 1655, The Commentaries of C. Julius Cæsar, page 32:
      The Arverns and Rutenes were in due courſe of warre ſubdued by Q. Fabius Maximus […]
    • 1844, The History of France‎[1], pages 26–27:
      In the south the Arverns and all the Iberian populations of Aquitaine had, in general, remained faithful to their hereditary chiefs.
    • 1993, From Gaul to De Gaulle: An Outline of French Civilization‎[2], page 21:
      The Celts—Gauls as the Romans called them—were not a unified people. The numerous Gallic tribes, among which the Parisii, the Belgae, the Sequanes (Sequana-Seine) and the Arverns (in the Auvergne region), were mostly at war with one another.
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