RAURANUM
RAURANUM in Gallia, is placed by the Table and the Antonine Itin. on a direct road from Mediolanum Santonum (
Saintes) to Limonum (
Poitiers).
It is Raurana in the Table, but the name Rauranum occurs in a letter of Paulinus to Ausonius (
Ep. IV. ad Auson. 5.249), who places it “Pictonicis in arvis.” The place is
Rom or
Raum, near
Chenay, nearly due south of
Poitiers. (D'Anville,
Notice, &c.; Ukert,
Gallien, p. 392.)
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