in Ancient Geography, a town of the Volcae Tectosages, called also Narbo Martius, from the Legio Martia, the colony led thither 59 years before the consulate of Caesar, (Velleius); increased with a colony of the Decumanii or tenth legion by Caesar. An ancient trading town on the Atax, which discharges itself into the sea through the Lacus Rubres, or Rubrensis. Capital of Gallia Narbonensis; surnamed Colonia Julia Paterna, from Julius Caesar, the father of Augustus by adoption. Now called Narbonne, a city of Languedoc.