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The office of this Tiberius was to portion out the land among the veteran soldiers, six thousand men of the Sixth Legion occupied the town and country round such of it, at all events, as was not under water and thenceforth the city took the name of Arelate Sextanorum. Tacitus gives us a picture of the proceedings on such occasions.
V. XI. The Roman Capitalists in the Provinces V. I. Transpadanes, V. VIII. Settlement of the New Monarchial Rule Narbo was called the colony of the Decimani, Baeterrae of the Septimani, Forum Julii of the Octavani, Arelate of the Sextani, Arausio of the Secundani. IV. VII. Bestowal of Latin Rights on the Italian Celts V. XI. Other Magistracies and Attributions
Narbo was called the colony of the Decimani, Baeterrae of the Septimani, Forum Julii of the Octavani, Arelate of the Sextani, Arausio of the Secundani. IV. VII. Bestowal of Latin Rights on the Italian Celts V. XI. Other Magistracies and Attributions We are not expressly informed from whom the Latin rights of the non-colonized townships of this region and especially of Nemausus proceeded.
Aquitania, a third part of ancient Gaul, now containing Guienne, Gascony, etc. Arecomici Volcae, Caesar plants garrisons among them, G. vii. 7 Caesar orders twelve galleys to be built there, C. i. 36 Arles, see Arelate Armorici, the ancient people of Armorica, a part of Gallia Celtica, now Bretagne; they assemble in great numbers to attack L. Roscius in his winter quarters, G. v. 53
The place was so pathetically beautiful in the dying day that a soft sadness pressed upon me like a hand on my forehead, and echoes of the long-dead past, when Greek Arles was a harbour of commerce by sea and river, or when it was Roman Arelate, rich and cruel, rang in my ears as we wandered through the cells of prisoners, the dens of lions, and the rooms of gladiators, where the young "men about town" used to pat their favourites on oiled backs, or make their bets on ivory tablets.
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