Moselle

thumb| The Moselle (German: Mosel; Luxembourgish: Musel) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A small part of Belgium is in its basin as it includes the Sauer and the Our. Quotes Salve amnis laudate agris, laudate colonis, Dignata imperio debent cui mœnia Belgæ! Amnis odorifero juga vitea consite Baccho, Consite gramineas, amnis viridissime, ripas: ... Salve, magna parens frugumque virûmque, Mosella. Hail, river, welcome to the soil, and lauded by the farmer; to whom the Belgæ are indebted for their city's being thought worthy of empire. O river, with thy viny slopes planted with odoriferous wine. O river, whose grassy banks are of verdant green; hail, thou Moselle, great mother of corn and of men. Ausonius, Mosella, præfatio, ll. 23–6, 381 (The city alluded to, is Trèves). Reported in Jules Michelet (tr. G. H. Smith) History of France, vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1845), p. 169, note External links Category:Rivers of Europe