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Bordeaux (Burdigala)

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Burdigala, modern Bordeaux in southwestern France, was the chief city of Roman Aquitania. It was the home of the fourth-century Latin poet and teacher Ausonius, who taught rhetoric there before being summoned to the imperial court and who celebrated his native city in verse.

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