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Rigomagus

RIGOMAGUS

RIGOMAGUS a village of Cisalpine Gaul, forming a station on the road from Ticinum (Pavia) to Augusta Taurinorum (Turin. ) It is placed by the Itineraries 36 M. P. from Laumellum (Lomello), and 36 M. P. from Augusta or Taurini: these distances coincide with the site of Trino Vecchio, a village a little to the S. of the modern town of Trino, on the left bank of the Po (Itin Ant. p. 339; Cluver. Ital. p. 234; Walckenaer, Géogr. des Gaules, vol. 3. p. 23).

[E.H.B]
RIGOMAGUS

RIGOMAGUS (Remagen), on the Rhine. The Table places it between Bonna (Bonn) and Antunnacum (Andernach), viii. from Bonna and ix. from Antunnacum. The Antonine Itin., which omits Rigomagus, makes the distance xvii. from Bonna to Antunnacum. Remagen is on the Rhine and on the north side of the Ahr near its junction with the Rhine. Ukert (Gallien, p. 518, note) speaks of a milestone found at Remagen with the inscription a Col. Agripp. M. P. xxx.

[G.L]

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