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Sura

Sura a branch of the Mosella in Gallia. Ausonius (Mosella, 5.354):--

Namque et Pronacae Nemesaeque adjuta meatu

Sura tuas properat non degener ire sub undas.

The Sura (Sour or Sure), comes from Luxembourg, and after receiving the Pronaea (Prum) and Nemesa (Nims), joins the Our, which falls into the Moselle on the left bank above Augusta Trevirorum.

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.