GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Toulouse (Haute-Garonne, 31)
Subject(s) Temple / Temple of Apollo
 
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°= Keiser 1968, p. 409
Bibliography

Keiser 1968 ; Labrousse 1968, pp. 412-417 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 97-100

Remarks

If the existence of a Temple of Apollo at Toulouse cannot be doubted, its situation remains uncertain. Certain historians identify, without proof, its site as being that currently occupied by the Church of Saint-Quintin. According to ancient hearsay, the temple was located in the Daurade area

Transcription 

« sicht man [...] Apollinis tempel, yetzunder Sant Quintin dem martyrer heilig »...
= “One can see […] the Temple of Apollo, since become the church of Saint-Quentin-Martyr...”