Dumnissus
Dumnissus a place in Gallia, on the road from Bingium (Bingen) to Augusta Trevirorum (Trier). The Table gives 16 Gallic leagues from Bingium to Dumnissus, and 8 from Dumnissus to Belginum. Ausonius, in his poem on the Mosella (5.1, &c.), mentions Dumnissus. After crossing the Nava (Nahe), which joins the Rhine at Bingen, he speaks of passing through forests without tracks, where there was no sign of human cultivation; and he adds,--
Praetereo arentem sitientibus undique terris
Dumnissum, riguasque perenni fonte Tabernas.
The route of Ausonius from Bingen was through the Hundsrück; but the site of Dumnissus is unknown. It is placed by some geographers at Denzen, near Kirschiberg. Belginum is supposed to be Belch, which in fact is the same name.
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.