GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

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Ville Périgueux (Dordogne, 24)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Lipse, Juste
  Philologist and historian (1547-1606)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1584
Inscription
References Lipse 1584, pp. 9-10
Bibliography DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 746-747 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 106
Remarks
Transcription 

« In Galliâ, Perigeusii in Petrocoriis (urbem eam, Vesunam Ptolomæi fuisse volunt) pulchrum & satis integrum, extrà mœnia. Cujus icunculam vidi, sed parum exactam aut certam : ideoque mihi non ponendam. E lapide [10] quadrato est, & Arenæ ejus longitudo XXX. Perticarum, latitudo, XX. »