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Lyon's importance isvery much emphasised by the presence of an urban cohort, in other...

Lyon's importance is
very much emphasised by the presence of an urban cohort, in other words a garrison
to protect the city

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Lyon's importance is very much emphasised
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by the presence of an urban cohort,
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in other words a garrison to protect the city.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:49
Uploaded
May 08, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary, history

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Nimes, again, maybe between 30,000 and 40,000.
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So the trick was to actually create a channel
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So Arles was certainly up there
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And it's also the only provincial city,
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For this, Roman surveyors used a chorobates,
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Were the Fishbones used to protect the stock of coins
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The only certainty is that they were connected to the Rhone ...
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If it doesn't overflow, then the chorobates
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Like Rome, its model,
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The user then simply aims the tool and determines the height
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In 260 AD, the city went up in flames
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The route of the Lutetia aqueduct was thus traced
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Like elsewhere in Gaul,
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But the engineers encountered a problem -
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While struggling to find the reason behind the Fishbones,
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..an obstacle that the Romans crossed with an aqueduct bridg...
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Some archaeological remains still bear the traces of this tr...
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These fingerprints left by a child,
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How many men did it take to build this gigantic underground ...
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An edifice which made way for the Medici Aqueduct