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APTA

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or APTA JULIA, (Pliny;) now Apté, in Provence, on the river Calavon, seven leagues to the north of Aix, and nine to the north of Avignon. In the Notitia it is called Civitas Aptensium: Pliny reckons it among the Latin towns. That it was a colony, appears from an inscription on a stone found at Arles, (Sirmond). E. Long. 5. 56. N. Lat. 43. 23.