GALLIA ROMANA

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Ville	Orange (Vaucluse, 84)
Subject(s)	Theatre

Author(s)	Du Rivail, Aymar
	Jurisconsult and historian from the Dauphiné province (c. 1490-c. 1560)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1535
Inscription
References	Du Rivail 6014, I, f. 48= Terrebasse 1844, p. 90
Bibliography	DLF XVI^e siècle, p. 446 ; Terrebasse 1844 ; Macé 1852 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 131-138 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 17-20 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 58, 94; Roumégoux 2009, pp. 231-243
Remarks

Transcription « Et in ea urbe Arausia est theatrum elegans, et ipsam Arausionem alluit Medena fluviolus, qui in theatrum, dum Romani Gallias tenerent, e more ducebatur, et adhuc est ibi supra Medenam molendinum, et pons arenarum, ex quo proxime ibatur ad arenas, id est ad theatrum »… = “In the town of Orange, there is an elegant theatre, into which, following the customs of Roman Gaul, water from the Meyne River, which flows through Orange, was diverted. There also remains over the river a watermill and a bridge, known as the 'Arena Bridge', so named because one crossed it going to the arena, that is the theatre..”