Rauraci
- a people of Gaul, on the Rhine, neighbors of the Helvetians, near Basle, Caes. B. G. 1, 5; 6, 25; 7, 75.—Hence,
- 1 Raurăcum, i, n., the city of the Rauraci, now Augst, near Basle, Amm.14, 10, 6: Rauriaca colonia, Plin. l. l.; also called Raurĭcum, id. 4, 12, 24, § 79: RAVRICA, Inscr. Orell. 432.—
- 2 Raurăcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Rauraci: colonia Rauraca = Rauracum, Plin. 4, 17, 31, § 106 (al. Rauriaca).
RAURACIor RAURICI(Ῥαυρικοί). The form Raurici appears in Ptolemy (Ptol. 2.9.18), in Pliny (iv. 17), and in some inscriptions. Ptolemy mentions two towns of the Rauraci, Rauricorum Augusta and Argentovaria [AUGUSTA RAURACORUM; ARGENTARIA]. Augusta is Augstnear Bâle, in the Swiss Canton of Bâle, and Argentovaria may be Artzenheim. The position of these places helps us to form a measure of the extent of the territory of the Rauraci, which may have nearly coincided with the bishopric of Bâle.
The Rauraci joined the Helvetii in their emigration, B.C. 58. [HELVETII]
[G.L]A people in Gallia Belgica, bounded on the south by the Helvetii, on the west by the Sequani, on the north by the Tribocci, and on the east by the Rhine. They must have been a people of considerable importance, as 23,000 of them are said to have emigrated with the Helvetii in B.C. 58, and they possessed several towns, of which the most important were Augusta (August) and Basilia (Basel or Bâle).