Terrasidius

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Titus Terrasidius was a Roman Knight of the Equestrian order and an officer of the cavalry in Julius Caesar's Legio VII Claudia.{{cite book|author1=Julius Caesar|author2=James Bradstreet Greenough|author3=Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge|author4=Moses Grant Daniell|title=Caesar's Gallic war: (Allen and Greenough's edition). books I-IV|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9oZAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA149|year=1904|publisher=Ginn & Company|pages=1–}}{{cite book|author=Julius Caesar|title=Gallic War: With a Life of Caesar, Geography and People of Gaul, History of the Military Art in Caesar's Commentaries ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qccAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA262|year=1895|publisher=Albert, Scott and Company|pages=262–}} He and other officers of the legion were sent out to negotiate provisions for the winter of 56–55 BC; they were captured by Breton tribes who were then subjugated as Caesar describes in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico:

{{cquote|The occasion of that war was this: Publius Crassus, a young man, had taken up his winter-quarters with the seventh legion among the Andes, who border upon the Ocean. He, as there was a scarcity of corn in those parts, sent out some officers of cavalry [who would be equites], and several military tribunes [who would be of senatorial rank] among the neighbouring states, for the purpose of procuring corn and provision; in which number Titus Terrasidius was sent among the Esubii; Marcus Trebius Gallus among the Curiosolitae; Quintus Velanius, [and] Titus Silius, amongst the Veneti.|}}wikisource:Commentaries on the Gallic War{{cite book|author1=Julius Caesar |author2=Jeremias Jacob Oberlin |title=Commentarii de bello Gallico et civili: Accedunt libri de bello Alexandrino, Africano, et Hispaniensi |url=https://archive.org/details/commentariidebel00caesuoft |accessdate=4 December 2011 |year=1825 |publisher=apud R. Priestley |pages=[https://archive.org/details/commentariidebel00caesuoft/page/64 64]–}}.