10 examples of lugdunum in sentences

Therefore they submitted, and founded the so-called Lugudunum, now known as Lugdunum.

Founded by Pompey the Great, B.C. 69, Lugdunum Convenarum, or Lyon, oras it is now calledSt.

The Sugambri and their allies, owing to the absence of Augustus and the fact that the Gauls were restive under the yoke of slavery, had become hostile, and he therefore occupied the subject territory before them, sending for the foremost men on the pretext of the festival which they celebrate even now about the altar of Augustus at Lugdunum.

He kept up his expenditures both for the objects that regularly interested him, producing some spectacles at Lugdunum, and also for the army.

[Vitellius witnessed gladiatorial combats at Lugdunum and again at Cremona, as if the crowds of men who had perished in the battles and were even then exposed unburied to the elements did not suffice.

On the occasion of his marrying Julia, Faustina, the wife of Marcus, prepared their bedchamber in the temple of Venus opposite the palace; and once, when he was asleep, water gushed from his hand as from a spring; and when he was governor of Lugdunum, the whole Roman domain approached and greeted him,all this in dreams, I mean.

[Sidenote:6] The struggle between Severus and Albinus near Lugdunum is now to be described.

I take this opportunity to tell you that we are at the ancient and celebrated Lugdunum, a city situated upon the confluence of the Rhone and Saône (Arar, I should say) two people, who tho of tempers extremely unlike, think fit to join hands here, and make a little party to travel to the Mediterranean in company; the lady comes gliding along through the fruitful plains of Burgundy....

Five years before the burning of Rome, Lyons had been a prey to a similar scourge, and Seneca wrote to his friend Lucilius, "Lugdunum, which was one of the show-places of Gaul, is sought for in vain to-day; a single night sufficed for the disappearance of a vast city; it perished in less time than I take to tell the tale."

But, as he was disliked there, he was driven out of Rome and went to Lugdunum, where he delighted the people, who were rather provincial.

10 examples of  lugdunum  in sentences