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Ville Lyon (Rhône, 69)
Subject(s) 'Temple of Venus'
 
Author(s) Pontanus, Isaac
  Dutch scholar (1571-1639)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1606
Inscription
References Pontanus 1606, Itin., p. 3, App. P. 37
Bibliography Lemerle 2005, pp. 32, 110-112
Remarks
Transcription 

« Quâ Veneri Idaliæ, si fert longæva vetustas,
Fundata est, veluti olim Erycino in vertice, sedes.
[…] [37] Forum templumque Veneris quo in urbis colle spectari diximus, quo sit autore exædificatum non est certò statuere. »