GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

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. »