GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Angers (Maine-et-Loire, 49)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Gölnitz, Abraham
  Geographer and cartographer from Danzig (15.. ?–16.. ?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1631
Inscription
References Gölnitz 1631, pp. 277-278
Bibliography Provost 1988-2, pp. 95-96 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 116
Remarks

This hybrid edifice (theatre-amphitheatre) was situated outside the town, in a place known as Grohan

Transcription 

« Dum deambulatum exivisti, eâdem operâ theatrum Romanorum extra portas vide, cujus rudera extant in loco GROHAN, testi[278]monia, olim Prćtores Romanos populo Gallico edidisse spectacula, in gratam Cćsarum suorum memoriam : oblatum mihi, cům ibi essem, antiquum est numisma quod inde erutum seriň adfirmabatur, habens nomen & acta antiqua. »