. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. us Plancus had recently founded, on the hill of Ft)ur\ ières, In resjiect to these sixty Gallic cities, sec Desjaidins, La Gauk romaine, vol. ii. ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE PROVINCES. 197 uencefour for the exiles from Vienna.^ Lying near the marshy conflof the Saône and the Rhone, almost at the point whereprovinces met, and adjacentto the Alps, Lyons was ad-mirably situated to become themost important of the trans-alpine cities. Having no past,no record, no patriotic ties withthe
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. us Plancus had recently founded, on the hill of Ft)ur\ ières, In resjiect to these sixty Gallic cities, sec Desjaidins, La Gauk romaine, vol. ii. ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE PROVINCES. 197 uencefour for the exiles from Vienna.^ Lying near the marshy conflof the Saône and the Rhone, almost at the point whereprovinces met, and adjacentto the Alps, Lyons was ad-mirably situated to become themost important of the trans-alpine cities. Having no past,no record, no patriotic ties withthe Gallic peoples, it was fittedto receive the Roman spiritand to spread it abroad throughGaul. Augustus strengthenedthe colony of Plancus, andmade it the centre of Romanadministration in Gallia Co-mata.^ He established there amint for the imperial coinageof gold and silver, and a co-hort was always in garrisonthere for the protection of thenumerous agents in the impe-rial service.^ It was, in fact,a second capital to the Em-pire. Agrippa hastened to lay out from its gates four great COPIA.* A Gallic village, Condate, occupied the point of land at the junction of the Saône andthe Rhone. It was not absorbed by Lugdunura until the fourth century. This territory wasabstracted from the country of the Segusiavi by Drusus when he built there the tenijile ofRome and Augustus. (Cf. Descr. du pays des Seguslaves, by A. Bernard, 1858.) Plancusfounded another colony, Rauraca (Augst, near Basle). 2 Strabo says (iv. 6, 11): It stands like a citadel in the centre of the country. Lyonshas, unfortunately, no Roman ruins whatever, save a few fragments of wall, some columns andisolated arches of the aqueduct which brought it water from Mont Pilat. It is supposed thatthe church at Fourvieres occupies the site of the Forum, and the hospital of Antiquaille tliatof the imperial palace, il. dArbois de Jubainville translates Ltujdunum, the fort of Lugu was the god of traders, and was
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