GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Nīmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Ortell, Abraham, called Ortelius
  Cosmographer and cartographer (1527-1598)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1570
Inscription
References Ortelius 1570, 12
Bibliography

Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 336-350 ; Gros 1996, pp. 335-336 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 85-86 ; Lemerle 2013-2

Remarks Ortelius drew on Paradin
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. »