The Lexovii were a Celtic people, on the coast of Gaul, immediately west of the mouth of the Seine River. When the Veneti and their neighbors were preparing for Julius Caesar's attack (56 BC), they applied for aid to the Osismii, Lexovii, Namnetes, and others. Caesar sent Quintus Titurius Sabinus against the Unelli, Curiosolites, and Lexovii, to prevent their joining the Veneti. A few days after Sabinus reached the country of the Unelli, the Aulerci Eburovices and the Lexovii murdered their council or senate, as Caesar calls it, because they were against the war; and they joined Viridovix, the chief of the Unelli. The Gallic confederates were defeated by Sabinus, and compelled to surrender. The capital of the Lexovii, or Civitas Lexoviorum, as it is called in the Notitia Dignitatum, was Lisieux, in the French department of Calvados, where the present-day inhabitants are still called Lexoviens. Under the Romans, the oppidum of the Lexovii was called Noviomagus Lexoviorum, "Newfield of the Lexovii". The country of the Lexovii was one of the parts of Gallia from where the passage to Britannia was made.
Lexovii in Videssos[]
Viridovix was a Lexovii chieftain who resisted Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul. The disappearance of Viridovix, as well as the entire Roman scouting column that encountered his larger force of Celts, was considered inconsequential by Caesar, and he did not write about it in The Gallic War.
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