GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Dax (Landes, 40)
Subject(s) Thermae
 
Author(s) Vinet, Élie
  Humanist and scholar from Bordeaux (1509-1587)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1580
Inscription
References Vinet 1580, 129B
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 1193-1194 ; Jullian 1901, pp. 211-221 ; Bonnard 1908, p. 339 ; Desgraves 1977 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 66, 107

Remarks

The passage cited concerns the swimming pool equipped with marble benches for the bathers

Transcription 

« Habet hic quidem tractus propius Pyranæum multos alios fontes callidos, magis celebres hoc tempore, quod valetudine magis salutares sentiantur : verum Aquensem olim celeberrimum fuisse argumento sunt vetusta solia marmorea : quæ in ejus margine adhuc extant. »