GALLIA ROMANA

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Ville	Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s)	Aqueducts

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, ff. 7-7v°= Terrebasse 1844, p. 12
Bibliography	DLF XVI^e siècle, p. 446 ; Terrebasse 1844 ; Macé 1852 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 131-138 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 58, 95
Remarks

Transcription « In colle juxta meridianam Geriæ ripam fuerunt in discursu ejus duo aquæductus constructi, inter se per duodecim passus distantes, quibus Geriæ aquam vel Pineti fontes, Romani in urbem Viennam conducebant, pro balneis sub Pupeto factis et aliis civium necessitatibus. Hi aquæductus ad altitudinem quinque pedum et latitudinem quatuor ædificati fuerunt, et per illos simul duo homines parum inclinati incedere possent : eorum compositio ita est apta, ut aspicienti [7v°] delectationem afferat. Per duos pedes cum dimidio, murus recte quadratus elevatur, et desuper circumflectitur et in fornicem conficitur ; adhuc extat pars hujusce operis quam magna cura vidimus »… = “On a hill near the southern bank of the Gere River, there were two aqueducts, built with an interval of twelve paces between them, by which means the Romans brought the water of the Gere, as well as that of the springs at Pinet, into Vienne, where it supplied the baths built at the foot of the Pipet Hill and all the other needs of the city. This aqueduct was five feet high and four wide; two men, bending a little, could walk in it abreast. The way these aqueducts are built inspires is perfectly adapted to their function and their sight inspires pleasure. The walls are mounted straight for two and a half feet, above which height they curve to form an vaulted ceiling. We examined the parts of this construction that are still in place with great care...”