VIGESIMUM
VIGESIMUM,
AD.
1.
A station in Gallia Narbonensis, the distance of which from a given point determined its name, as we see in the case of other names of places derived from numerals. [DUODEOCIMUM, AD; VIENNA.] The place is xx. M. P. from Narbo (
Narbonne) on the road to Spain, and may be at or near a place called
La Palme.
2.
There is another Ad Vigesimum which occurs in the Itin. of
Bordeaux to Jerusalem, on the road from
Toulouse, These numerals show that such cities
[p. 2.1310]had the privilege of reckoning their roads from the capital to the limit of their territories, where a Fines often occurs. [
FINES] (D'Anville,
Notice, &c.) [
G.L]