ERNODU´RUM
ERNODU´RUM a town in Gallia, which the Antonine Itin. places on a road from Burdigala (
Bordeaux) to Augustodunum (
Autun).
The road passes through Avaricum (
Bourges); and 13 Gallic leagues from
Bourges, on the
Bordeaux side of
Bourges, was Ernodurum.
The next place to Ernodurum, on the
Bordeaux side, is Argentomagus.
The place was called Ernotorum in the middle ages.
The termination “durum” indicates a river, and the site of Ernodurum is fixed at
St Ambroise, at the passage of the river
Arnon, a branch of the
Cher. [
G.L]