GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vers-Pont-du-Gard (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) ‘Pont du Gard’
 
Author(s) Thomas, Hubert, called Leodius
 

Historian, secretary and counsellor of Frederick II, Elector Palatine (14.. ?-15.. ?)

Resource type Printed book
Date 1501
Inscription
References Leodius 1624, p. 33
Bibliography Provost 1999-2, p. 736 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 88-91
Remarks

The 'Pont du Gard' was probable the most universally admired Gallo-Roman monument

Transcription 

« Deinde veterem Romanorum Coloniam Nemausum concessit, ubi Amphitheatrum & aquæductus triplici columnarum ordine, ad hæc antiquitates & inscriptiones vetustissimæ, si usque alibi, innumeræ cernuntur. »