GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Nîmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) Magne Tower
 
Author(s) Zeiller, Martin
  Protestant author (1589-1661)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1661
Inscription
References Zeiller/Merian 1661, IV, p. 51
Bibliography

Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 176-178 ; Gros 1996, pp. 48-49 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 87-88 ; Lemerle 2013-2

Remarks
Transcription 

« Appellatur ille Toure magne & opus Romanum esse putatur. Lapides ejus ita duri sunt, ut si vel maximè robustissimus qui magno nixu & labore confringendum vertetur, vix tamen per diem integrum, semiulnam possit desecare. Ex monte illo non tantum urbis, sed vicinæ quoque regionis aspectus patet. »