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[edit] population size

The 2-3rd century population figures came from the history cited. To the anonymous IP who increased it to 200,000 or more, please offer your source here. Size of aqueduct seems a pretty weak basis for estimation and is still unsourced. Changes of numbers without explanation by anon IP numbers are usually "sneaky vandalism", so-called because they are hard to catch. I am open to adding or modifying info if you can tell me your source and discuss here. Otherwise you are a vandal. Thanks for understanding. alteripse 22:57, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, there is no solid base for the population of the roman cities, because they had no population census, it is generally estimated using the enclosed walled area, but this tipe of estimate does not fit with these city, because it was build during the pax romana (a period of internal peace in the empire). There were hundreds of cities in the Roman Empire with populations numbering in the 40,000-50,000, and Lugdunum was considered a major city, and in the roman empire major cities had populations numbering in the half million, like Carthage and Ephesus.

And a modern city of the US, with has a large amount of per capita water consumption, consumes 0,3 cubic meters of water per head. And if this figure is extended to Lugdunum, its population would be 225.000 considering the amount of water with flows to the city.--200.203.8.66 05:32, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation and welcome to wikipedia. If you can provide sources for (a) the water flow and (b) for someone else who has published the higher populaton estimates, let's put it in the article. Also, please consider registering an account (basically just picking a name so your IP number is concealed and your contributions are less likely to be confused with others). It also makes people a little less suspicious that minor changes might be vandalism. alteripse 19:46, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Battle of Lugdunum

This section starts off with the line "... four generals again contended for the purple". As I am not an expert in this subject material I am not sure what this means. My educated guess is that this means they were fighting to become the Roman Emperor. I don't want to edit the section as I am not sure of the meaning; however, I think that this "slang" term should either 1) be defined or 2) be rephrased to make it clear.

Also, the phrase "... the Lugdunum mint issued coins celebrating his clemency ..." seems to be inaccurate. I think perhaps clemency is not the right word here as it is synonmous with a pardon. I think perhaps "acencion (sp?) to Emperor or some such thing.