GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Nīmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) Basin of the Fontaine
 
Author(s) Hentzner, Paul
  German jurist (1558-1623)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1617
Inscription
References Hentzner 1617, p. 51
Bibliography

Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 241-268 ; Gros 1996, pp. 440-441 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 87 ; Lemerle 2013-2

Remarks
Transcription 

« Contiguę huic est Abyssus, sive Aqua perennis & limpidissima, quam specum aut lacum haud ineptč dixeris, cuius fundum nemo mortalium invenit, oppido sufficientem aquam per tubos, eņ deductam subministrans ; Putant nonnulli istum fontem per subterraneum meatum ex Rhodano originem habere ; Verum hac de re cuilibet liberum esto judicium. »