GALLIA ROMANA

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

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Ville	Toulouse (Haute-Garonne, 31)
Subject(s)	Capitol

Author(s)	Platter, Thomas II
	Physician from Basel, younger brother of Felix Platter (1574-1628)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1599
Inscription
References	Platter A λ V, f. 374v°, 381= Keiser 1968, pp. 409, 416
Bibliography	Keiser 1968 ; Labrousse 1968, pp. 417-429 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Arramond/Boudartchouk 2002, pp. 220-229 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 100
Remarks	The existence of a temple dedicated to the Roman triad, Jupiter, Juno and Minerva is attested by St Saturnin's Passion (5^th century). The 'Capitol' is probably the temple of the forum, the foundations of the podium which were found under the 'Place Esquirol' in 1998. It is possible that the vestiges evoked by T. Platter were those of the 'Château Narbonnais' and the 'Porte Narbonnaise' destroyed in the middle of the 16^th century

Transcription « Bey dem ort, daß man die Inquisition nennet, sicht man noch ettliche stuck vom (amphitheatro) schauwplatz wie auch deß capitolij so wie ein rundt schloß, dem zu Rom änlich gebauwen worden. […]. [381] Welcher Saturnin als er zu Tolosen im capitolio den idolis unndt abgötteren nicht hatt opferen wellen, ist er von dem gemeinen mann auß dem runden schloß, in form deß capitolii zu Rom gebauwen, gestürtzet »… = “Near the place known as the 'Inquisition', one can see several remnants of the entertainment venue (amphitheatre), as well as of the capitol and of a round fortress, similar to that at Rome. […] Saturnin, when he was in Toulouse, in the capitol, refused to offer sacrifices to idols and false gods; for which reason, the common soldiers threw him from the top of this round fortress, which resembles the Capitol in Rome.”