TELO MARTIUS
TELO MARTIUS (
Toulon), in Gallia Narbonensis.
This name is not mentioned by the geographers.
It occurs in the Maritime Itin. and in the Notit. Imp. Occid., where a “procurator Baphii Telonensis Galliarum” is mentioned, which indicates the existence of a dyeing establishment there. In Lucan (
3.592) Telo is the name of a pilot or helmsman, and Oudendorp supposes that the poet gave the man this name because he was of the town Telo; which seems a strange conjecture. And again Silius (14.443) is supposed to allude to the same town, when he says--“Et Neptunicolae transverberat ora Telonis.”
The old Roman town is said to have been at or near
Toulouzan, where the Lazaretto now is. (
Statist. du Dép. des Bouches du Rhône, referred to by Ukert,
Gallien, p. 428.)
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