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Nova or New Hippo[1], Ilurco[2], Osca[3], Escua[4], Sucubo[5], Nuditanum, Old Tuati[6]; all which towns are in that part of Bastitania which extends towards the sea, but in the jurisdiction[7] of Corduba. In the neighbourhood of the river itself is Ossigi[8], also surnamed Laconicum, Iliturgi[9] or Forum Julium, Ipasturgi[10] or Triumphale, Setia, and, fourteen miles inland, Obulco[11], which is also called Pontificense.
Next to these comes Epora[12], a federate town, Sacili[13] Martialium, and Onoba[14]. On the right bank is Corduba, a Roman colony, surnamed Patricia[15], here the Bætis first becomes navigable. There are also the towns of Carbula
- ↑ Its present site is unknown.
- ↑ According to D'Anville, the present Puente de Pinos, six leagues north of Granada. Others take it to be Illora, south of Alcala la Real.
- ↑ The present Huesca, according to Hardouin; more probably, however, Huector, on the banks of the river Genil.
- ↑ Perhaps Escusar, five leagues from Granada. But according to some it is the same as Truelo or Eruelo.
- ↑ Called Ucubis by Hirtius. Morales suggests that it is Sierra la Ronda, but Pinet says Stoponda.
- ↑ The sites of this and the preceding place are unknown.
- ↑ In relation to the 'conventus juridicus,' we may here observe that under the Roman sway, in order to facilitate the administration of justice, a province was divided into a number of districts or circuits, each of which was so called, as also 'forum' or 'jurisdictio. At certain times of the year fixed by the proconsul or chief magistrate, the people assembled in the chief town of the district (whence the name 'conventus'), upon which judges were selected to try the causes of litigant parties.
- ↑ Probably near the town at the present day called Espelui. Strabo, in Book iii., tells us that Laconian institutions and customs were prevalent in some parts of Spain.
- ↑ This place was ravaged by fire and levelled with the ground by the troops of Scipio, in consequence of the vigorous defence they had made, and the losses they had caused to the Roman army. It probably stood about four miles from the present city of Baeza.
- ↑ The sites of this place and the next are unknown.
- ↑ Most probably the present town of Porcuna. Ubeda or Ubedos has also been suggested.
- ↑ The present town of Montoro.
- ↑ Now Alcoorrucen, near Perabad.
- ↑ Ansart suggests that the reading is not Sacili of the Martiales, but Onoba of the Martiales, to distinguish it from Onoba Æstuaria, previously mentioned. It is not improbable that the place was so called from the Martian or Martial legion having originally colonized it. The site of Onoba is unknown.
- ↑ Cordova was so called from the great number of patricians, who were among the original colonists, when it was founded by Marcellus. To the
