The Allobroges were a warlike nation in Gaul located between the Rhône River and the Lake of Geneva in what later became Savoy, Dauphiné, and Vivarais .
The Allobroges were made offers to join in the Catiline conspiracy, but they refused the offers and exposed the plot in 63 B.C. The Romans destroyed their city.
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- Initial material derived from the public domain Lempriere's Dictionary of 1824.
