NARBO (anc. geog.), a town of the Volces Teufages, called also Narbo Martius, from the Legio Marcia, the colony led thither 59 years before the consulate of Cæsar, (Velleius); increased with a colony of the Decumani or tenth legion by Cæsar. An ancient trading town on the Atax, which discharges itself into the sea through the Lacus Rubreus, or Rubrensis. Capital of the Gallia Narbonensis; sur-named Colonia Julia Paterna, from Julius Cæsar, the father of Augustus by adoption. Now called Narbonne, a city of Languedoc.
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