Mellaria[1], Mirobriga[2], and Sisapo[3], in the district of Osintias.
To the jurisdiction of Gades belongs Regina, with Roman citizens; and Læpia, Ulia[4], Carisa[5] surnamed Aurelia, Urgia[6] or Castrum Julium, likewise called Cæsaris Salutariensis, all of which enjoy the Latian rights. The tributary towns are Besaro, Belippo[7], Barbesula, Lacippo, Bæsippo, Callet, Cappacum, Oleastro, Ituci, Brana, Lacibi, Saguntia[8], and Audorisæ.
M. Agrippa has also stated the whole length of this province to be 475 miles[9], and its breadth 257; but this was at a time when its boundaries extended to Carthage[10], a circumstance which has often caused great errors in calculations; which are generally the result either of changes effected in the limits of provinces, or of the fact that in the reckoning of distances the length of the miles has been arbitrarily increased or diminished. In some parts too the sea has been long making encroachments upon the land, and in others again the shores have advanced; while the course of rivers in this place has become more serpentine, in that more direct. And then, besides, some writers begin their measurements at one place,
- ↑ According to Hardouin this was on the site of the modern Fuente de la Ovejuna, fourteen leagues from Cordova.
- ↑ This has been identified by inscriptions with the modern Villa de Capilla.
- ↑ According to Hardouin, the modern Almaden de la Plata.
- ↑ Probably the same as the modern Monte Major.
- ↑ The ruins of this place are probably those seen at Carixa, near Bornos, in the vicinity of Seville.
- ↑ According to Hardouin, the same as the modern Las Cabezas, not far from Lebrija.
- ↑ The sites of these two towns are unknown. Bæsippo, Barbesula and Callet have been already mentioned.
- ↑ The ruins of Saguntia are to be seen between Arcos and Xeres della Frontera, on the river Guadalete; they bear their ancient name under the form of Cigonza. Mela, B. iii. c. 1, says that Oleastro was a grove near the Bay of Cadiz. Brana was probably the same place that is mentioned by Ptolemy under the name of Urbona.
- ↑ We may here mention for the more correct information of the reader that the Roman mile consisted of 1000 paces, each pace being five English feet. Hence its length was 1618 English yards (taking the Roman foot at 11.6496 English inches), or 142 yards less than the English statute mile.
- ↑ Nova Carthago, or New Carthage.
