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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
En parcourant les Mémoires secrets pour servir à la Republique des lettres, j'y rencontrai une anecdote me concernant à raison de la découverte d'un Aquéduc Romain à Antibes. Voici cette anecdote insérée page 141 du 25me volume de cet ouvrage.
Antibes, Lat. Antipolis, a City and Sea-Port of Provence in France, formerly an Episcopal See, under the Archbishop of Ambrun, which was afterwards translated to Grasse. It was a Colony of the Inhabitants of Marseilles, who built it, which still preserves several Monuments of its Antiquity, as Inscriptions, Urns, Statues, Pillars, &c. In 1608, Henry IV. purchased this city of Alexander Grimaldi, and Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayne, and united it to the Demesnes of Provence. It is defended with a Castle, has a convenient Port, and the adjacent Country is fruitful. St. Math. Godeau.
The above is transcribed from Collier's Historical Dictionary. The city is also described by Moreri, and Hoffmann; but neither of those three authors make any mention of the Aqueduct. M. R.
page 205 note a There is a small mistake in this statement, as 2½ inches on 100 toises will make only five feet one inch and a half 2460 toises, reckoning 12 inches to the foot, M. R.