ARELATE, or ARELATUM, is a town of Gallia Narbonensis, situated on the Rhone, denoting a town on, or beyond, a marsh, according to the particular situation of the speaker; called Arelate Sextanorum, (Pliny, Mela, Coin), because it had a colony of the sixth legion. Writers of the lower age call it Arelas, atis, (Prudentius, Ausonius). There was a double Arelas, one on each side of the river and joined by a bridge, (Ausonius); that on the left side is thought to have been built by Constantine. Tiberius's father was sent by Julius Cæsar at the head of the colony, (Suetonius); and hence the appellation Julia Paterna, as appears from an inscription. It was the favourite
Aremberg, rite place of the Romans, and greatly ornamented; and hence called Gallula Roma, (Aulonius). It is now called Arls. E. Long. 5. 5. N. Lat. 43. 40.
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AREMBERG, a small town of Germany, in the circle of Westphalia, defended by a castle. It is the capital of a county of the same name, and was erected into a principality by the Emperor Maximilian II. in favour of John de Ligne, lord of Barbazon, who took the name of Aremberg. It is seated on the river Ayr. E. Long. 7. 3. N. Lat. 50. 27.