GALLIA ROMANA

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Ville	Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s)	Pont de Trajan

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. 6= ed. Terrebasse 1844, p. 10
Bibliography	DLF XVI^e siècle, p. 446 ; Terrebasse 1844 ; Macé 1852 ; Leblanc 1880, pp. 89-97 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 124-125 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 58, 96-97
Remarks	The only one of the three Roman bridges which subsisted was swept away by a flood in 1651

Transcription « Et dum in Hispaniam ulteriorem Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus pergeret […] pontem supra Rhodanum fundatis in utroque latere castris ædificavit » = “And when later Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus continued on to Spain […], he had a bridge built over the Rhone with a fortress at each entrance...”