GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Bordeaux (Gironde, 33)
Subject(s) Roman city walls
 
Author(s) Quadt, Matthias
  German geographer and engraver (1557/58-1613)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1603
Inscription
References Quadt 1603, p. 50
Bibliography

Étienne 1962, pp. 204-211 ; Barraud/Linières/Maurin 1996, pp. 15-75 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 32, 103

Remarks

This passage is cited in the work traditionally attributed to C. Ens (1609, p. 64)

Transcription 

« Burdegala longa antiquitatis laude gloriari potest : argumento sunt muri, qui in ejus meditullio spectantur ; unde conici potest, olim ampliorem fuisse quam nunc est. »