a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 193 Iulius was sent in to þe west londes, and dwelled þere fyve ȝere, to make þe Galles and the Allobrogues, þat beeþ Burgoynes, sugette.
?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford (1940) l. 21854 (MED) Þai sal arife with willes gode At þe port hafen of barbes flode, Þat þien þai might passe with him Til allobroges contres þat tim.
1544 A. Cope viii. f. 10 The inhabitantes wherof were called Allobroges, a kynde of people, that in honour and rychesse myghte not lyghtely be matched in Fraunce.
1621 R. Burton ii. ii. vi. ii. 370 Q. Fabius Maximus, that renowned Consull of Rome, in a battle fought with the King of the Allobroges.
1693 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal vii. Notes 144 Rufus call'd Tully an Allobroge; as if his Latine were Barbarous, and not truly Roman.
1749 T. Nugent III. vi. 179 It [sc. Geneva] is a place of great antiquity,..and in Cæsar's time was reckoned the furthest city of the Allobroges.
1844 18 May 185/1 The people of Vienne having been driven from their own home by a revolt of the Allobroges, were settled here [sc. Lyons] by Plancus about the year 42 B.C.
1955 3 Apr. (Travel section) 3/6 Vienne, the Roman Vienna, chief town of the Allobroges, in Caesar's time.
2008 B. Kane iv. 57 After the fashion of their tribe, the Allobroges, they wore their blond hair in pigtails tied with cloth band.