Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 70s BC, bayan yakin basasa tsakanin bangaren aristocratic na Sulla da ragowar magoya bayan Marius da Cinna, mashahurin mashahurin Roman Quintus Sertorius ya ƙi ba da Spain ga mulkin mallaka na Sullan. Rabuwar da ya yi ya haifar da Yaƙin Sertorian, wanda a lokacin da aka yi amfani da tsarin siyasa na Celtic a cikin Bahar Rum Gaul don ɗaukar sojoji da tilasta buƙata don tallafawa ƙoƙarin soja na Metellus Pius, Pompeius Magnus ("Pompey Mai Girma"), da sauran kwamandojin Romawa a kan 'yan tawaye. Wasu Celts, ciki har da watakila Helvii da Volcae Arecomici, sun goyi bayan Sertorius. Bayan da aka kashe Romawa mai ridda, Metellus da Pompeius sun sami damar bayyana nasara, kuma an tilasta wa Helvii da Volcae su ba da wani ɓangare na ƙasashensu ga masarautar Girka Massilia (Marsel na yanzu), amintaccen abokin tarayya na Roma na ƙarni, wanda ke da dabarun da ke bakin kogin Rhône kuma mai goyon bayan Pompeius.A lokacin Yaƙin Gallic na Kaisar, babu wani daga cikin "civitates" na Gallic a cikin lardin Narbonese da ya shiga cikin tawayen Gallic na 52 BC
, kuma ba a shiga cikin ayyukan da aka ruwaito ba game da ayyukan adawa da sojojin Roma. Valerii na Helvian, a zahiri, suna taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen tabbatar da bayan Kaisar ta hanyar soja a kan Vercingetorix, wanda ya aika da sojoji don mamaye yankin Helvian. A cikin tarihinsa na Vivarais na 1861, Abbé Rouchier ya yi hasashen cewa Kaisar, ganin amfani da dabarun yankin Helvian a kan iyakar lardin Roman tare da babbar hanyar zuwa tsakiyar Gaul, ya haɓaka Valerii ta hanyar gyara matakan horo da Pompeius ya ɗauka a kansu. Kaisar ya ambaci asarar ƙasa a cikin "Bellum Civile", yayin da a hankali ya watsar da duk wani aikin da abokansa masu aminci na Helvian suka yi wa Roma a cikin shekarun 70.