LUTETIA PARISIORUM, (anc. geog.), a town of the Parisii, in Gallia Celtica, situated in an island in the Sequana or Seine. It received its name, as some suppose, from the quantity of clay, lutum, which is in its neighbourhood. J. Cæsar fortified and embellished it, from which circumstance some authors call it Juli-Gi-
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