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ng for spot to found colony and es


orted by a band of soldiers who re


NAMED faith ul to him. discovered


lumber of Vienese-driven from thei
country by the AllobrogeS who had de
Srended from the mountains-pitchin.
heir tents on that tongue Of land forti
he'd by immense bitches which Cop hac
ormed, and through which dashed the
waters OF the Rhone and the Saone
The prescribed formed an alliance with
the vanQuished; and under the name OF
Lucn ID, NUMf ii. e. the town of Lucius
|-Lucius Manutius PIaucus having been
the prescribed client and the founder of
the town. were laid the foundations of
that city which was destined shortly to
become the citadel of Ganl, and the CEN
tire OF communication of those four great
roads, traced by Agrippa, which still
furrow modern France from the Alps.
the Rhine, and from the Mediterranean
to the Ocean.


Sixty cities of Gaul, recognised I.ucII
DuNUM for their queen; and, a, Joint
expense, raised in it temple to Au-
guStus, whom they acknowledged as
their god.


Under Caligula. this temple was chan
ged into a hall fer the sittings Of an
Arademy-rne regulation of which de-
picts the character of the imperial fool
who founded it This was a rule that
'shrnever an ademic rompr,itoI pro-
duced bal work, he should efface it
entire y with his tors que, or, if he pre-
ferred the alternative, be precipita,ed in
10 the Rhine.


l.u Ii Dunum was not vet a century
Did, and ready rivalled in splendor the
IF, clan Masilia and he Roman Narbo,
when fire, supposed to have origina ed
rom lightning, redured it to ashes, and
hat SO rapidly, SAYS Seneca, the concise
'storian of this nflagration, that be-
ween the crowded city and an annihila
ed city, but one night interviewed.


Under the mighty patronage of Ira |
an, Lucii Dunum rose again from her
shes, and on the hill above was cree
"a magnificent ediiice FIR market.
his was arcelv opened when the
'rItHns fastened lhither with their buck
'rs ornamented in vari us coIorS, and
ne iberians with their weapons ofStetI,
hrh they alcne knew how to temper.
ollnth and Athens. too, sent bv the
'u of MarseilleS their pictures pain
ID on wood, their engraved stones and
Ieir bronze statues. Africa contr buted
Pr lions, tigers, and panhers, thirst
& or the blood oFthe Amphitheatres
I'd Persia, her horses, so suppe that
ev emu ated the reputation Of The Nu-
ld'an &C ursrrs, whose dams, says He {
d' tus, were inn reg mated by the winds.
i his edlhte, which crumb.ed away
the S4Oth year of our era, is called
; the writers of the nj tn century Fo-
M vETus, and FORT VEL bv those of d
: fifteenth. ! he moderns have made
these Two words FoURvIEREs, a ! anne h
lcn the hill wherein it stood now bears. II
! hree monuments still remain III I.v- "
$ which ma he ikened to stakes T an /,
by different ages, and at near equal ir
tanceS, as types Of he progress and n
av Of art; the church of Ainai, the
thedral Of st. John and The Hotel de
le. The first contemporaneous with