GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Autun (Saōne-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Montjeu Aqueduct
 
Author(s) Ladone, Étienne
  Lawyer and poet (16..?-16..?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1640
Inscription
References Ladone 1640, pp. 92-93
Bibliography

Papillon 1742, I, pp. 364-365 ; Fontenay 1889, pp. 93-101 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 56-58 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Remarks

The work published by Ladone is an annotated poem on the subject of Autun's antiquities

Transcription 

« B. APPIA CVM TEPVLA. […] At vna tantum in vrbem Ęduam aqua, deducta fuisse comperitur, Herculea scilicet, velleris in stagno concepta, via Lugdunensi, quę tamen omnibus [93] amplissimę copiosissimęque ciuitatis regionibus per structiles distributa canales (quos semirutos hodie cernimus) abunde suffecit, ita vt sola non immerito tribus pręcipuis Romanorum aquis ęquiparari posse videatur »