Avenio
Αὐενίων
Avenio (Αὐενίων, Strab. p. 185: Eth. Avennicus, Αὐενιωνήσιος, Αὐενιωνίτης: Avignon), a town of Gallia Narbonensis, at the junction of the Druentia, Durance, and the Rhone. It was in the territory of the Cavares; and Pliny and Mela (2.5) call it Avenio Cavarum. Pliny (3.4) enumerates it among the oppida Latina,
that is, the towns which had the Latinitas, of Gallia Narbonensis. Ptolmey calls it a colonia. Stephanus (s. v. Αὐενίων) calls it a city of Massalia,
from which it seems that there is some authority for supposing it to be a Greek foundation, or to have come under the dominion of the Greeks of Marseille. Besides the resemblance of the ancient and modern names, the site of Avignon is determined by the Itin. route from Arelate to Vienna and Lugdunum, which passed through Avenio.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.