GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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Ville | Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71) |
Subject(s) | Roman city walls |
Author(s) | Ladone, Étienne |
Lawyer and poet (16..?-16..?) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1640 |
Inscription | |
References | Ladone 1640, p. 63 |
Bibliography | Papillon 1742, I, pp. 364-365 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 42-43 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116 |
Remarks | The work published by Ladone is an annotated poem on the subject of Autun's antiquities |
Transcription
« MVROS O PATRIA ALMA TVOS. Antiquae vrbis ambitus muro comprehensus, passus circiter XI. M. ccomplectebatur (sic) : latitudo muri erat cubitorum quinque, altitudo quindecim, vt ex reliquiis colligere licet : turres quinquaginta passuum interuallo inter se distantes, ducentæ & viginti olim numerabantur, quarum plurimæ collapsæ sunt, nonnullæ magna ex parte adhuc integræ visuntur. » |