The corpus record — Latin

Bagaudae

Bagaudae · m

a class of peasants in Gaul

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What it meant

1. Bagaudae — Lewis & Short

Bagaudae, ārum, m.,

I a class of peasants in Gaul, who rebelled under the emperor Diocletian, and were finally conquered by Maximian, Aur. Vict. Caes. 39; Eutr. 9, 20.—Hence, Bagaudĭca rebellio, rebellion of the peasants, Eum. pro Restaur. Schol. 4.

2. bagaudae — Walde–Hofmann

bagaudae , gallische Aufstándische* (Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 17): gall., von *bágà f. „Kampf“ (ir. bag ds., bägaim „kämpfe, prahle, drohe*) ahd. usw. bága „Zank, Streit*); zum Ausgang vgl. baseauda. — Walde-P. H 130, Dottin 230. [baia ,Hafen*] (Isid. 14, 8, 40 hunc [sc. portum] veteres a baiolandis mercibus vocabant baias): wohl mit Meyer-Lübke RhM. 70, 3341. zu streichen, da einer falschen Auffassung von Isidors … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bagaudae, p. 125]

Where it came from

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.