A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

a legatue who was defeated and killed by the Aquitani a year before Caesar's legatus, P. Crassus, made war upon this people, B. C. 56 (Caesar, Caes. Gal. 3.20). This defeat of Praeconinus is not mentioned by any other writer, and we know nothing of him or of the history of the war.