Iuliodunum

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Iuliodunum is a name invented in neo-Latin poetry of the 16th century and soon became widely used for the French city Loudun (Latin name in the Middle Ages: Losdunum , documented in 1059). Centuries later, Iuliodunum (or Juliodunum ) is still the ancient name for the city of Loudun.

The term Iuliodunum appears for the first time in 1530 in the title of an ode that the neo-Latin poet Salmon Macrin (Latin artist name from 1528: Salmonius Macrinus Iuliodunensis ) dedicates to his native town Loudun: Alloquitur Iuliodunum (freely translated: "Invocation to Loudun").

When inventing this poetic name, the poet's concern was to suggest a close connection between Julius Caesar and his hometown Loudun (amalgamation of the names Iulius and Lodun : Iu-lio-dun- ). This gives Loudun the prestige of a "city founded by Julius Caesar" and the poet, who previously, in 1528, had chosen the nickname Iuliodunensis for this purpose , the prestige of a "scion of the city of Loudun founded by Julius Caesar".

literature

  • Salmon Macrin: Salmonii Macrini Iuliodunensis Carminum libellus. Colines, Paris 1528.
  • Salmon Macrin: Salmonii Macrini Iuliodunensis Carminum libri quatuor. Colines, Paris 1530.
  • Scévole de Sainte-Marthe: Scaevolae Sammarthani Gallorum doctrina illustrium, qui nostra patrumque memoria floruerunt, elogia. Blanchet, Poitiers 1602.
  • Ernest Jovy: Un Juge d'Urbain Grandier, Louis Trincant, biographe inédit de Salmon Macrin. Roiffé, Loudun 1892. Facsimile: Firmin, Loudun o. D.
  • Pierre Delaroche: Loudun. Société Historique du Pays de Loudunois (ed.). Morineau, Loudun 1948.
  • A. Dauzat / Ch. Rostaing: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France . Paris 1963.
  • Georges Soubeille: Jean Salmon Macrin, Le livre des Épithalames (1528–1531). Les Odes de 1530 (Livres I & II). Edition critique avec introduction, traduction et notes. UTM, Toulouse 1978.
  • Marie-Françoise Schumann: Salmon Macrin and his work with special consideration of the “carmina ad Gelonidem” from 1528 and 1530. Hamburg contributions to Neo-Latin philology. Vol. 6. LIT, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10304-8 .
  • Marie-Françoise Schumann: Salmon Macrins poetry collections from 1528 to 1534. Edition with word index. Hamburg contributions to neo-Latin philology. Vol. 7. LIT, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11016-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Dauzat / Ch. Rostaing 1963, p. 390 (Schumann 2009, p. 97, note 52).
  2. ↑ See e.g. B. the Grand Usuel Larousse. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Larousse-Bordas, Poitiers 1997, pp. 4429-4430, keyword “Loudun - Hist.”.
  3. ↑ Schumann 2011, p. 41 and 389
  4. ↑ In Macrin's time and beyond, the city of birth of the poet was called Lodun ; see e.g. B. the division of Macrin's estate from 1558, transferred from Schumann 2009, pp. 137-139 ( Lodun on p. 137, line 12, and on p. 139, in the last paragraph).
  5. ↑ Adjective for Iuliodunum such as B. Lugdunensis to Lugdunum (City of Lyon ).
  6. ↑ Schumann 2009, pp. 99-102.