GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Romans (Ain, 01)
Subject(s)	Roman city walls

Author(s)	Du Rivail, Aymar
	Jurisconsult and historian from the Dauphiné province (c. 1490-c. 1560)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	Before 1535
Inscription
References	Du Rivail 6014, I, f. 17v°= Terrebasse 1844, p. 33
Bibliography	p align="justify">DLF XVI^e siècle, p. 446 ; Terrebasse 1844 ; Macé 1852 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 58
Remarks	Modern archaeologists seem unaware of Du Rivail's observation (Buisson 1990, p. 73)

Transcription « et prima fundatione angustum more vetusto erat, sicut veteres oppidi portæ et muri cum vallo testantur. » = “The first city walls were very narrow, as was the way then; the old city gates, walls and ramparts all attest to it.”