CESERO
CESERO or
CESSERO, a town of Gallia Narbonensis, in the territory of the Volcae Tectosages (
Ptol. 2.3). The Itin. and the Table fix its position on the great Roman road from Arelate (
Arles) to Narbo (
Narbonne).
The distance from Cessero to Baeterrae (
Béziers) is 12 M. P., and the site of Cessero corresponds to
St. Tiberi on the river
Hérault. D'Anville shows that the monastery of
St. Tiberi is called Caesarion in a document of A.D. 867.
As the place was on the river, this explains the fact of its being named in the Antonine Itin. “Araura sive Cessero.”
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