Opposite to the Alps, on the north, is Gallia-belgica, near which is the river Rhine, which discharges itself into the Britanisca sea, and to the north, on the other side of this sea, is Brittannia.

To the south of it, on the other side of an arm of the sea, is Gallia-belgica.

10 Belgae, the inhabitants of Gallia Belgica.

11 Belgia, Belgium, or Gallia Belgica, the Low Countries, or Netherlands Bellocassi, or Velocasses, a people of Gaul, inhabiting the country of Bayeux, in Normandy; they furnish three thousand men to the relief of Alesia, G. vii.

43 Lepontii, a people of the Alps, near the valley of Leventini, G. iv. 10 Leuci, a people of Gallia Belgica, where now Lorrain is, well skilled in darting.

58, 60 Menapii, an ancient people of Gallia Belgica, who inhabited on both sides of the Rhine.

4 Moritasgus, G. v. 54 Mosa, the Maess, or Meuse, a large river of Gallia Belgica, which falls into the German Ocean below the Briel, G. iv.

35 Nem[=e]tes, a people of ancient Germany, about the city of Spire, on the Rhine, G. i. 51 Nemetocenna, a town of Belgium, not known for certain; according to some, Arras, G. viii, 47 Neocaesarea, the capital of Ponts, on the river Licus, now called Tocat Nervii, an ancient people of Gallia Belgica, thought to have dwelt in the now diocese of Cambray.

12 Placentia, an ancient city of Gallia Cisalpina, near the Po, now the metropolis of the duchy of Piacenza, which name it also bears Pleum[)o]si, an ancient people of Gallia Belgica, subject to the Nervians, and inhabiting near Tournay Pompey, at first friendly to Caesar, G. vi. 1; subsequently estranged, G. viii.

It was made a Roman colony in the time of Augustus, and became afterwards the most famous city of Gallia Belgica.

At the north-east, in Belgica, some bands of other Teutons, who had begun to be called Germans (men of war), had passed over the left bank of the Rhine, and were settling or wandering there without definite purpose.

During his first campaign in Belgica, (A. U. C. 697 and 57 B.C.), two peoplets, the Nervians and the Aduaticans, had gallantly struggled, with brief moments of success, against the Roman legions.

After the departure of Augustus, his adopted son Drusus, who had just fulfilled, in Belgica and on the Rhine, a mission at the same time military and administrative, called together at Lyons delegates from the sixty Gallic cityships, to take part (B.C.12 or 10) in the inauguration of a magnificent monument raised, at the confluence of the Rhone and Saone, in honor of Rome and Augustus as the tutelary deities of Gaul.

He had to extinguish in Belgica, and even in the Lyonnese province, two insurrections kindled by the sparks that remained of national and Druidic spirit.

L. Verus, one of the military commandants in Belgica, had conceived a project of a canal to unite the Moselle to the Saone, and so the Mediterranean to the ocean; but intrigues in the province and the palace prevented its execution, and in the place of public works useful to Gaul, Nero caused a new census to be made of the population whom he required to squeeze to pay for his extravagance.

In Belgica the German peoplets, who had been allowed to settle on the left bank of the Rhine, were very imperfectly subdued, and kept up close communication with the independent peoplets of the right bank.

But in the northern part of Belgica, towards the mouths of the Rhine, where a Batavian peoplet lived, a man of note amongst his compatriots and in the service of the Romans, amongst whom he had received the name of Claudius Civilis, embraced first secretly, and afterwards openly, the cause of insurrection.

Petilius Cerealis, a commander of renown for his campaigns on the Rhine, was sent off to Belgica with seven fresh legions.

A legion cantoned amongst the Tungrians (Tongres), in Belgica, had on its muster-roll a Dalmatian named Diocletian, not yet very high in rank, but already much looked up to by his comrades on account of his intelligence and his bravery.

Whatever may have been the specific names of these peoplets, they were all of German race, called themselves Franks, that is, "free-men," and made, sometimes separately, sometimes collectively, continued incursions into Gaul,especially Belgica and the northern portions of Lyonness,at one time plundering and ravaging, at another occupying forcibly, or demanding of the Roman emperors lands whereon to settle.

Some chroniclers name Meroveus as King of the Franks, settled in Belgica, near Tongres, who formed part of the army of Aetius.

All that can be distinctly affirmed is, that, from A.D. 450 to 480, the two principal Frankish tribes were those of the Salian Franks and the Ripuarian Franks, settled, the latter in the east of Belgica, on the banks of the Moselle and the Rhine; the former, towards the west, between the Meuse, the ocean, and the Somme.

Whilst prosecuting his course of plunder and war in Eastern Belgica, on the banks of the Meuse, Clovis was inspired with a wish to get married.

Late red ditto c.m. 74 v. quercifolia Oak-leaved ditto c.m. 75 v. belgica Dutch ditto c.m. 76 Lycium barbarum.

alba White Monthly ditto c.m. 395 v. Belgica Blush Belgic ditto c.m. 396 v. - Great Royal ditto c.m. 397 v. - Blush Monthly ditto c.m. 398 v. -