NARBO, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Volscæ Tectosages, called also Narbo Martius, from the Legio Martia, 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 Rubrenus. Capital of Gallia Narbonensis; furnished Colonia Julia Paterna, from Julius Cæsar, the father of Augustus by adoption. Now called Narbonne, a city of Languedoc.
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