Brivas
Brivas a town of the Arverni, is mentioned by Sidonius Apollinaris (Carm. 24.16):--Hinc te suscipiet benigna Brivas.
The place is Brioude on the Allier. Some authorities speak of a Roman bridge there, and say that the old church was built in the time of Constantine. The name Brivas indicates the passage of a river. [G.L]
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.