TARASCON
TARASCON (
Ταρασκών:
Ταρασξον), a town in the Provincia Narbonensis, on the east side of the
Rhone, between
Arles and
Avignon. The railway from
Avignon to
Marseille passes through
Tarascon, and there is a branch from
Tarascon to
Nîmes. Ptolemy (in whose text the name is written
Ταρουσκών) enumerates Tarascon among the towns of the Sales [
SALYES]. Strabo (
iv. p.178) says that the road from Nemausus (
Nîmes) to Aquae Sextiae passes through Ugernum (
Beaucaire) and Tarascon, and that the distance from Nemausus to Aquae Sextiae is 53 Roman miles; which, as D'Anville observes, is not correct.
In another passage (iv. p. 187) Strabo makes the distance from
Nîmes to the bank of the
Rhone opposite to
Tarascon about 100 stadia, which is exact enough. [
TARUSCONIENSES]
[
G.L]
