GALLIA ROMANA
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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. » |