ICULISMA
ICULISMA a place in Gallia, mentioned by Ausonius (Ep. 15.22). as a retired and lonely spot where his friend Tetradius, to whom he addresses this poetical epistle, was at one time engaged in teaching:-- “Quondam docendi munere adstrictum graviIculisma cum te absconderet.
” It is assumed to be the place called Civitas Ecolismensium in the Notitia Prov. Gall., which is Angoulême, in the French department of Charente, on the river Charente. [G.L]