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GESSORIACUM

Volume 9 · 73 words · 1823 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 Gessoriacenses Muri are mentioned by Eumenius in his panegyric. The author of Tabula Thodesiana, commonly called Peutinger's map, says expressly, that Gessoriacum was in his time called Bononia. Now Boulogne in Picardy. E. Long. 1. 35. N. Lat. 50. 45.