AUGUSTA SUESSONUM
AUGUSTA SUESSONUM or
SUESSIONUM (
Soissons).
The position of this place is determined by the Itineraries.
It is twice called simply Suessonae in the Antonine Itin.
It was on the road from Durocortorum (
Rheims) to Samarobriva (
Amiens).
Soissons is on the south bank of the
Aisne, in the department of
Aisne. Under the later empire there was a Roman manufactory of shields, balistae, and armour for the cavalry called Clibanarii. D'Anville and others suppose that the Noviodunum of Caesar (
Caes. Gal. 2.12) was the place that afterwards became Augusta Suessonum; and it may be, but it is only a conjecture. [
SUESSIONES]
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G.L]