GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Vers-Pont-du-Gard (Gard, 30) |
| Subject(s) | ‘Pont du Gard’ |
| Author(s) | Grasser, Johann Jacob |
| Historian and theologian from Basel (1579-1627) | |
| Resource type | Printed book |
| Date | 1607 |
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| References | Grasser 1607, pp. 47-48 |
| 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 |
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Transcription
« Quarto ab urbe lapide Aquć ductus superat, opus ingenti structura mirabile, cui par nec Germania, Italia, aut Hispania habet. Angliam non allego, in illa enim nihil talium monumentorum offendere potui. Vulgň Pont du Gard, pons Gari vocatur, integit enim fluuium (qui ante biennium horrenda inundatione Alestum, ubi Comitis stabuli La[48]berintheus hortus, inuasit tribus arcuum ordinibus, adeň ut inferior pons, qui peruius, infimas ; secundus medias, tertius, cui aquć ductus incumbit, supremas montium partes pluribus arcubus conjungat. » |
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