GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
|
Ville | Vers-Pont-du-Gard (Gard, 30) |
Subject(s) | ‘Pont du Gard’ |
Author(s) | Bèze, Théodore de |
Writer and protestant theologian (1519-1605) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1576 |
Inscription | |
References | Bèze 1576, « In Pontis triplicis aquæductum... », p. 180 |
Bibliography | DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 142-143 ; Gardy 1960, pp. 6-7 ; Provost 1999-2, p. 736 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 88-91 |
Remarks | The epigram on the monument was in included in the third edition of the Poemata. The poem met with much success; it was cited by Pontanus, Zinzerling, Gölnitz amongst others.The 'Pont du Gard' was probable the most universally admired Gallo-Roman monument |
Transcription « Montibus impositos cantauit Græcia montes, |