OLTIS
OLTIS De Valois suggested, and D'Anville adopts his opinion, that we ought to read Oltis instead of Clitis in the verse of Sidonius Apollinaris (
Propempt.):--“Clitis, Elaris, Atax, Vacalis.”
D'Anville observes that the same river is named Olitis in a poem of Theodulf of Orleans. Accordingly the river ought to be named Olt or l'Olt; but usage has attached the article to the name, and we now speak of
Le Lot, and so use the article twice. The
Lot rises near
Mont Lozère on the
Cévennes, and it has a general west course past
Mende and
Cahors. It joins the
Garonne a few miles below
Agen, which is on the
Garonne. [
G.L]