GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Nîmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Paradin, Guillaume
  Historian, dean of the chapter at Beaujeu (c. 1510-1590)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1542
Inscription
References Paradin 1542, p. 104
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, p. 905 ; Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 336-350 ; Gros 1996, pp. 335-336 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 85-86 ; Lemerle 2013-2

Remarks

The existence of the underground conduit evoked by Paradin is contested by Poldo d’Albenas (1559/60, p. 214)

Transcription 

« Huc & Nemausum pertinet Amphitheatro antiqui operis visendum (arenas vocant) mirum illic ostendi subterraneum meatum, qui per transversum Rhodanum sub ipso alveo ductus in procul dissitam perveniat civitatem. »