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GESSORIACUM

Volume 7 · 72 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a port and station for ships of the Morini in Belgica. In Cæsar's time, according to Dio, there was no town; but Florus speaks of it as one; and the Geforiacenses Muri are mentioned by Eumenius in his Panegyric. The author of Tabula Theodosiana, commonly called Pettinger's map, says expressly, that Geforiacum was in his time called Bononia. Now Boulogne in Picardy. E. Long. i. 35. N. Lat. 50. 40.