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ARAUUSIO

Volume 2 · 85 words · 1823 Edition

or Civitas Arausiensis, or Arausiacum (Notitiae); Colonia Secundanorum (Mela, Pliny, Coins); so called, because the veterans of the second legion were there settled: The capital of the Cavares, in Gallia Narbonensis. Now Orange, in the west of Provence, on an arm of the rivulet Eyge, which soon after falls into the Rhone, from which it is distant a league to the east, at the foot of a mountain. Here is an ancient amphitheatre to be still seen. E. Long. 4. 46. N. Lat. 44. 10.