BRIVODU´RUM
BRIVODU´RUM a place on a river, as the name imports.
The place is perhaps
Briare, on the right bank of the
Loire, near
Châtillon-sur-Loire. The Antonine Itin. and the Table place Belca between Brivodurum and Genabum (
Orléans), and Condate,
Cosne (Massava in the Table), between Brivodurum and Nevirnum (
Nevers).
There is the usual difficulty about the numbers. Walckenaer places Brivodurum at
La, Villeneuve near
Bonny. The road evidently followed the right bank of the
Loire, as it does now from
Nevers to
Orléans. [
G.L]