GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Nîmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s)	Magne Tower

Author(s)	Zinzerling, Just
	Dutch scholar (1590-1618)
Resource type	Printed book
Date	1616
Inscription
References	Zinzerling 1616, p. 209
Bibliography	Bernard 1859, pp. 1-14 ; Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 176-178 ; Gros 1996, pp. 48-49 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 87-88 ; Lemerle 2013-2
Remarks	Zinzerling stayed in France from 1612 to 1616

Transcription « Montem vicinum in quo annosa illa turris, vulgò Tourremaigne, (sive turrem magnam sive Romanam Latinè sonare dicas) aliis Tourremille (quod una fuerit ex mille turribus, quæ urbem circumdabant) olim comprehenderat. ». = “On a nearby hill, there is an ancient tower, known locally as the 'Tour Magne' (derived from the Latin 'Turris Magna'), though some call it the 'Tour Mille' (because it was one of the thousand towers which ringed the town in the times past).”