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GESSORIACUM

Volume 9 · 73 words · 1815 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a port and station for ships of the Morini in Belgica. In Caesar's time, according to Dio, there was no town; but Florus speaks of it as one: and the Gessoriaeenses Muri are mentioned by Eumenius in his panegyric. The author of Tabula Theodosiana, commonly called Peutinger's map, says expressly, that Gessoriacum was in his time called Bononia. Now Boulogne in Picardy. E. Long. i. 30. N. Lat. 50. 40.