285 BCE - Battle of Vadimonian Lake

by Kathleen Ní Bhriain

The Romans decided to begin attacking unfortified villages of the Celts, killing the women, children and old men, burning villages and running off any survivors. The survivors fled into the surrounding areas and told of what had happened. After the initial shock, the Celtic armies marched toward Rome, but were defeated by the Roman armies. The Senones, one of the strongest of the Celtic tribes, was completely obliterated. The River Tiber is alleged to have run red with blood "as far as Rome itself".

Two years later, Rome established Sena Gallica (or Senigallia, or Sinigaglia) in the territory which had formerly been occupied by the Senones Tribe, and began to excerise some measure of control over the Celts with a series of border towns in the Po Valley.

Sources:

The Celts, People Who Came Out of the Darkness, Gerhard Herm, St. Martin's Press, (c)1977, ISBN 312-1205-7

The Ancient Celts, Barry Cunliffe, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-815010-5

prepared by Kathleen Ní Bhriain

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