Cliap. 3.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, &C. 159 



Nova or New Hippo^ Ilurco-, Osca^, Escua"*, Sucubo^ IS'udi- 

 tanurn, Old Tuati*^ ; all which towns are in that part of Basti- 

 tania which extends towards the sea, but in the jurisdiction' of 

 Corduba. In the neighbourhood of the river itself is Ossigi^, 

 also surnamed Laconicum, Iliturgi^ or Forum Julium, Ipas- 

 turgi^" or Triumphale, Setia, and, fourteen niiles inland, 

 Obulco", which is also called Pontificense. 



Next to these comes Epora^', a federate town, Sacih'^ 

 Martialium, and Onoba^^. On the right bank is Corduba, 

 a Eoman colony, surnamed Patricia ^^ ; here the Baetis first 

 becomes navigable. There are also the towns of Carbula 



^ Its present site is unknown. 



2 According toD'Anville, the present Puente de Pinos, six leagues north 

 of Grranada. Others take it to be Illora, south of Alcala la Real. 



3 The present Huesca, according to Hardouin ; more probably, how- 

 ever, Huector, on the banks of the river Grenil. 



■* Perhaps Escusar, five leagues from Granada. But according to some 

 it is the same as Truelo or Eruelo. 



5 Called Ucubis by Hh'tius. Morales suggests that it is Sierra la 

 Eonda, but Piaet 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 facihtatc the administration of jus- 

 tice, a proviuce was divided into a number of districts or ch'cuits, each of 

 which was so called, as also ' forum ' or ' jm'isdictio.' At certain times of 

 the year fixed by the proconsid 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 htigant parties. 



3 Probably near the town at the present day called Espelui. Strabo, 

 in Book iii., teUs 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, ia consequence of the vigorous defence they had made, 

 and the losses they had caused to the Roman army. It probably stood 

 about foiu* miles from the present city of Baeza. 



^0 The sites of tliis place and the next are unknown. 



^^ Most probably the present town of Porcuna. Ubeda or Ubedos 

 haa also been suggested. 



^'^ The present town of Montoro. ^^ Now Alcoorruceu, near Perabad. 



^^ Ansart suggests that the reading is not Sacih of the IMartiales, 

 but Ouoba of the Martiales, to distinguish it from Onoba ^Estuaria, 

 previously mentioned. It is not improbable tlmt the place was so called 

 from the Martian or Martial legion having originally colonized it. The 

 site of Onoba is miknown. 



^^ Cordova was so called from the great number of patricians, who were 

 among the original colonists, when it was founded by Marcellus. To the 



