GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Bordeaux (Gironde, 33)
Subject(s) Miscellanea
 
Author(s) Thomas, Hubert, called Leodius
 

Historian, secretary and counsellor of Frederick II, Elector Palatine (14.. ?-15.. ?)

Resource type Printed book
Date 1501
Inscription
References Leodius 1624, p. 25
Bibliography Lemerle 2005, pp. 25, 103-105
Remarks

Leodius mentions here Bordeaux's two most remarkable antiquities: the amphitheatre (otherwise known as the Gallian Palace) and the Pillars of Tutela

Transcription 

« Conscensoque Garumna navib. Burdegalam amœnissimam urbem delatus est, & admiratus magnifici illius Theatri atque alterius mirandi operis vetustissimi, quod Tutelam appellant, ruinas. »