GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Dettey (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) 'Motte de Perpenna'
 
Author(s) Ladone, Étienne
  Lawyer and poet (16..?-16..?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1640
Inscription
References Ladone 1640, pp. 118-119
Bibliography

Papillon 1742, I, pp. 364-365 ; Fontenay 1889, pp. 159-176 ; Rebourg 1994-2, p. 337 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 116

Remarks

The 'Motte de Perpenna' is located in the extreme north-west of the Commune of Detty, near the Roman road to Autun. The passage cited is from Ladone's annotated poem on the subject of Autun's antiquities. The work published by Ladone is an annotated poem on the subject of Autun's antiquities

Transcription 

« Locus hic septem circiter mille passibus ab urbe distans fossa undique munitus, veterisque muri reliquiis circum[119]septus Perpenna etiamnunc ab arcis, quæ illic fuit, conditore Perpenna nomen habet. »