GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Narbonne (Aude, 11)
Subject(s) Miscellanea
 
Author(s) Pontanus, Isaac
  Dutch scholar (1571-1639)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1606
Inscription
References Pontanus 1606, Itin., p. 13 ; Append. I, p. 81
Bibliography Gayraud 1981 ; Dellong 2003 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 32, 84
Remarks

In order to finish Narbonne's ramparts, started under Louis XIII, François I had the subsisting Roman remains, which mostly came from the Gallo-Roman necroplis, collected up and used as building material

Transcription 

« Quid rudera narrem
Antiquæ historiæ? Quid templa domosque, quid illa
Aucta auro contra pretiosis mœnia saxis?
[…] [81] De mænibus ergò urbisque passim ruderibus, quod innuit Sidonius, nos quoque in Carmine fide oculatâ retulimus. Innumeri enim cum Inscriptionibus antiquis exteriori murorum orbitæ ità impacti sunt lapîdes, ut eminùs quidem adspici vix tamen adiri aut legi, ob aquæ & fossæ circumductæ profunditatem possint. »