Gallia Romana

City	Vers-Pont-du-Gard (Gard, 30)
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Resource type	Printed book
Date	1607
Inscription
References	Grasser 1607, pp. 47-48
Bibliography	Provost 1999-2, p. 736 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 88-91
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The ‘Pont du Gard’ was probable the most universally admired Gallo-Roman monument

« Quarto ab urbe lapide Aquæ ductus superat, opus ingenti structura mirabile, cui par nec Germania, Italia, aut Hispania habet. Angliam non allego, in illa enim nihil talium monumentorum offendere potui. Vulgò Pont du Gard, pons Gari vocatur, integit enim fluuium (qui ante biennium horrenda inundatione Alestum, ubi Comitis stabuli La[48]berintheus hortus, inuasit tribus arcuum ordinibus, adeò ut inferior pons, qui peruius, infimas ; secundus medias, tertius, cui aquæ ductus incumbit, supremas montium partes pluribus arcubus conjungat. »