king of the Celts in Gaul in the reign of Tarquinius Priscus. He belonged to the Bituriges,
the most powerful of the Celtic people. When Ambigatus was advanced in years, he sent out
Bellovesus and Sigovesus, the sons of his sister, with large swarms of his people to seek new
settlements, in consequence of the great number of the population. Bellovesus and Sigovesus
drew lots as to the course they should take; the latter in consequence went to the Hercynian
forest and the former into Italy. (