Arelas

Arles is situated on the Rhône, near the Camargue, in a marshy place, as its original name, Arelas, from the Celtic words,

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

Provoked at such ill treatment, Caesar led three legions against Massilia, and resolved to provide turrets, and vineae to assault the town, and to build twelve ships at Arelas, which being completed and rigged in thirty days (from the time the timber was cut down), and being brought to Massilia, he put under the command of Decimus Brutus; and left Caius Trebonius his lieutenant, to invest the city.

Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius. 1869

At Arelas, about two years since, one of his comrades had joined their circle of boon-companions, and had related that he had been the witness of a remarkable scene.

Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

"That is love!" were the words that her heart sang in triumph, and as her memory looked back on the admirers who had approached her in Arelas when she was still little more than a child, and afterwards in Rome, with tender words and looks, they all appeared like phantom forms carrying feeble tapers, whose light paled pitifully, for Polykarp had now come on the scene, bearing the very sun itself in his hands.

Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

In her youth her father had kept her very strictly, but still he had allowed her to go through the streets of the town with her young companions, wreathed with flowers, and all dressed in their best, in the procession of maidens at the feast of Venus of Arelas, to whom all the women of her native town were wont to turn with prayers and sacrifices when their hearts were touched by love.

Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

When her husband had locked her in, taking even her slave with him, at first she had raved, wept, meditated revenge and flight, and at last, quite broken down, had seated herself by the window in silent thought of her beautiful home, her brothers and sisters, and the dark olive groves of Arelas.

Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

I believe it longs to be back again at Arelas, and is afraid we shall linger too long under this burning sky.

Homo Sum — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867

I believe it longs to be back again at Arelas, and is afraid we shall linger too long under this burning sky.

Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

When her husband had locked her in, taking even her slave with him, at first she had raved, wept, meditated revenge and flight, and at last, quite broken down, had seated herself by the window in silent thought of her beautiful home, her brothers and sisters, and the dark olive groves of Arelas.

Homo Sum — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867

To-day certainly she had no mind for such sport, and she recollected the stern words which had fallen from Dorothea's lips on the worship of Venus, when she had once told her how well the natives of Arelas knew how to keep their feasts.

Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867