CONDERATES
Eth.
CONDERATES are only known from a Roman inscription, which records that the boatmen (nautae) of the
Saône and the
Loire, and also the boatmen of the
Arconée and the Conderates, dedicated a funeral monument to the memory of their patron Tauricius Florens.
The inscription is as follows: D. M. Tauricio. Florenti Taurici. Tauriciani filio Veneto. allectori. Galliae patrono nautarum Araricorum et Legyricor. Item Areccarorum et Conderatium. Provinciae Galliae. Their position is represented by
Condrieu on the west side of the
Rhone, about ten miles below
Vienne. Condrieu is still a small port on the
Rhone, partly inhabited by people well skilled in the navigation of the river, and by carpenters who build boats. “Allector” is explained by Muratori to be “tributorum susceptor,” a tax-collector. Forcellini has an article on the word.
The name Conderates implies a place Conderate, or something like it; and this is another example of the element
Cond in Gallic names. [
CONDATE] (Walckenaer,
Géog., &c., vol. i. p. 337.)
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