EBUROBRICA
EBUROBRICA (in the Antonine Itin.), EBUROBRIGA (in the Table), was on a road between Autesiodurum (
Auxerre) and Augustobona (
Troyes).
There is the usual difficulty about the distances, but it is not great.
It is agreed that the place is
St. Florentin, on the small river
Armance, which flows into the
Armançon, a branch of the
Yonne. The termination
brica, briga, or
briva is all one, and always indicates the passage of a river. D'Anville observes that between
St. Florentin and
Auxerre the passage of the
Sérain is at a place called
Pontigny, in which case we have a Roman name indicating the same fact that the Celtic term “briva” or “briga” indicates.
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