AQUAE CONVENA´RUM
AQUAE CONVENA´RUM These waters are placed by the Anton. Itin. on the road from Aquae Tarbellicae to Tolosa (
Toulouse), and on this side of Lugdunum Convenarum. Some geographers identify the place with
Bagnères-de-Bigorre in the department of
Hautes Pyrénées, a place noted for its mineral springs; but D'Anville fixes the site at Capbern. Walckenaer, however, places it at
Bagnères. Strabo (p. 190), after mentioning Lugdunum, speaks of the warm springs of the Onesii(
τῶν Ὀνησζῶν), for which unknown name Wesseling and others would read
Κονουενων. Xylander (Holzmann) proposed to read
Μονησίων, and Pliny (
4.19) mentions the Monesi, whose name seems to be preserved in that of the town of
Moneins on the
Baise, in the department of
Hautes Pyrénées. Grosskurd (
Translation of Strabo, vol. i. p. 327) assumes that Aquae Convenarum is
Bagnères in
Comminges Bagnères de Bigarre is proved by an inscription on the public fountain to be the Aquensis Vicus of the Romans, the inhabitants of which were named Aquenses; which seems to confirm the opinion that Aquae Convenarum was a different place.
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