Meanings of oppidum in English

The delights of life in a Gaulish town are easier to picture in the little oppidum of Ensérune, near Béziers.

Often, the only sign is a rough plank of wood like a signpost in an Astérix comic, with the words oppidum celtique.

Drappes and Lucterius established themselves at a distance of ten miles from the oppidum, with the intention of introducing the provisions gradually.

Lots were now drawn in the oppidum to decide which shed each chariot was to start from, and in which naissus each was to run.

The fortified citadel of the seigneury was built on the site of a Gallo-Roman camp, or castrum, the castrum on that of a Gallic oppidum.

1 Pervenit in oppidum Cirtam, quo initio profectus intenderat); but Marius's plans may have been modified by intervening events.