ANDECAVI
Eth.
ANDECAVI a Gallic tribe, who were stirred up to a rising by Julius Sacrovir in the time of Tiberius, A.D. 21. (
Tac. Ann. 3.40.) As Tacitus in this passage couples them with the Turonii or Turones, we may conclude that they are the tribe which Caesar calls Andes (
B. G. 2.35), and which occupied a part of the lower valley of the
Loire (Ligeris), on the north bank, west of the Turones. Their position is still more accurately defined by that of their chief town Juliomagus, or Civitas Andecavorum, the modern Angers, in the department of
Maize et Loire, on the
Mayenne, an affluent of the
Loire. [
G.L]