{{Short description|Eburonian king}} {{For|the metal band|Catuvolcus (band)}} '''Cativolcus''' or '''Catuvolcus''' (died 53 BC) was king of half of the country of the Eburones, a people between the Meuse and Rhine rivers, united with Ambiorix, the other king, in the insurrection against the Romans in 54 BC; but when Julius Caesar in the next year proceeded to devastate the territories of the Eburones, Cativolcus, who was advanced in age and unable to endure the labours of war and flight, poisoned himself with a yew, after imprecating curses upon Ambiorix.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities|editor=William Smith|editor-link=William Smith (lexicographer)|year=1870|page=634|url=http://ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0643.html|access-date=2007-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522223104/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0643.html|archive-date=2006-05-22|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
== Name == The Gaulish personal name ''Catu-uolcos'' ('war-Wolf, battle-Wolves') is a compound formed with the stem ''catu-'' ('battle') attached to ''uolcos'' ('battle, wolf'). The Eburonian name has an exact parallel in the Middle Welsh ''cadwalch'' ('hero, champion, warrior'), both stemming from a Proto-Celtic form *''katuwolkos''. It is cognate with the Gaulish ethnonym ''Volcae.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|pp=111, 327}}''{{Sfn|Toorians|2013|p=114}}{{Sfn|Koch|2020|p=91}}
==References== {{Reflist}} A.J Hughes Études celtiques page 165 -166 === Bibliography ===
* {{Cite book|last=Delamarre|first=Xavier|title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental|date=2003|publisher=Errance|isbn=9782877723695|author-link=Xavier Delamarre}} *{{cite book|last=Koch|first=John T.|title=Celto-Germanic, Later Prehistory and Post-Proto-Indo-European vocabulary in the North and West|publisher=Aberystwyth Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies|year=2020|url=https://www.wales.ac.uk/Resources/Documents/Centre/2020/Celto-Germanic2020.pdf|isbn=9781907029325|author-link=John T. Koch|archive-date=2021-11-25|access-date=2021-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125063756/https://www.wales.ac.uk/Resources/Documents/Centre/2020/Celto-Germanic2020.pdf|url-status=dead}} *{{Cite book|last=Toorians|first=Lauran|title=Archaeological Contributions to Materials and Immateriality|date=2013|publisher=Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren|isbn=978-90-74605-61-8|editor-last=Creemers|editor-first=Guido|language=en|chapter=Aduatuca, 'place of the prophet'. The names of the Eburones as representatives of a Celtic language, with an excursus on Tungri|chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/33460316}}
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Category:53 BC deaths Category:Barbarian people of the Gallic Wars Category:Belgae Category:Celtic warriors Category:1st-century BC Gaulish tribal chiefs Category:1st-century BC monarchs in Europe Category:Early Germanic warriors Category:Year of birth unknown
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