CA´LYDON
CA´LYDON or
CA´LIDON, a place in Gallia,. mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus (
27.1). D'anville was not able to assign its position. Hadrian Valesius, who changed the reading of the, MSS. to Cabilona, takes the place to be
Châlon-sur-Saône; but there is no MS. authority for this alteration.
The narrative of Ammianus does not help us in determining the position. Walckenaer (
Geog. vol. i. p. 516), relying on the resemblance of name which he finds in the forest of
Caldnoven, in the. French department of the
Moselle, in the arrondissement of
Thionville, places Calydon near the forest, and at
Thionville, or, as he adds, rather, at 3000 feet distant from
Thionville, at
Yentz, on the right bank of the Mosel, where many medals have been found; but he does not say what kind of medals.
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