GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Nîmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s)	Amphitheatre

Author(s)	Everaert, Jan, called Johannes Secundus
	Dutch poet (1511-1536)
Resource type	Printed book
Date	1533
Inscription
References	Secundus 1618, Itin. Hisp., p. 63 [f. D 8] = Guillot 2007, p. 238
Bibliography	DLF XVI^e siècle, p. 1080 ; Prévot 1923 ; Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 336-350 ; Gros 1996, pp. 335-336 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 85-86 ; Lemerle 2013-2
Remarks

Transcription « ubi moles est ingens vetustissimaque in modum colossi Romani à Traiano, ut oppidani dicebant exstructa. » = “According to the town's inhabitants, this enormous and extremely ancient mass was modelled on the Coliseum built by Trajan in Rome.”