GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Lyon (Rhône, 69) |
| Subject(s) | Odeon |
| Author(s) | Coryat, Thomas |
| English traveller (c. 1577-1617) | |
| Resource type | Printed book |
| Date | 1611 |
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| References | Coryat 1611, p. 59 |
| Bibliography | Schutte 1978 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 35-36, 110-111 ; Le Mer/Chomer 2007, pp. 558-559 |
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Transcription
« Also [on the hill of Fourvière] there are to be seene the ruines of that huge amphitheatre, wherein those constant seruants of Iesus Christ willingly sufffered many intollerable and bitter tortures for his fake : I call it a huge amphitheatre because it is reported it contained at the least fiftie thousand persons. » |
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