burdigala

Updated: August 2, 2026

Gaul was a populous country even in Caesar's time, and possessed twelve hundred towns and cities, some of which were of great importance. Burdigala, now Bordeaux, the chief city of Aquitania, on the Garonne, was famous for its schools of rhetoric and grammar.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.