A champion of the Helvetii tribe mentioned in Book I of Caesar’s own account of his conquests.
The name is interesting because it illustrates the difficulty of interpreting these names reported to us via Greco-Roman sources.
What does the name ‘Verudoctius’ mean?
The generally accepted answer these days is ‘nothing’, for the name has been corrupted by the ‘manuscript tradition’. The actual name is Veru-cloetius, meaning ‘wide-famed’. (The element ‘cloed-‘ is related to Anglo-Saxon ‘hlud’ and thereby to modern English ‘loud’.) That is, the ‘cl’ mutated into a ‘d’ and ‘c’ to and ‘e’. Perhaps at some point the poor man was known as Verucloctius. Ah, says a philologist, Latin cloaca! He was the ‘veru-cloaca’. The poor man.