RAURANUM in Gallia, is placed by the Table and the Antonine Itin. on a direct road from Mediolanum Santonum (Saintes) to Limonum (Poitiers). It is Raurana in the Table, but the name Rauranum occurs in a letter of Paulinus to Ausonius (Ep. IV. ad Auson. 5.249), who places it Pictonicis in arvis.The place is Romor Raum, near Chenay, nearly due south of Poitiers. (D'Anville, Notice, &c. ; Ukert, Gallien, p. 392.)
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