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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]

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