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going back from tlie foot of the Pyrenees, are tlie Ausetaui\ 

 theLacetani^, and along the Pyrenees, the Cerretani^, next to 

 whom are the Yascones^. On the coast is the colony of 

 Barcino'\ surnamedFaventia; Baetulo^ and Iluro', towns with 

 Pomau citizens; the river Larnum^, Blanda?^, the river Alba'"; 

 Emporiie^', a city consisting of two parts, one peopled by the 

 original inhabitants, the other by the Grreek descendants 

 of the Pliocaeans ; and the river Ticher'^. From this to the 

 Venus PjTen^a'^, on the other side of the Promontory, is a 

 distance of forty miles. 



I shall now proceed to give an account of the more re- 

 markable things in these several jurisdictions, in addition to 

 those which have been already mentioned. Forty-three 

 different peoples are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of 

 Tarraco : of these the most famous are — holding the rights 

 of Roman citizens, the Dertusani^'* and the Bisgargfitani ; 

 enjoying Latian rights, the Ausetani, and the Cerretani, both 

 Julian and Augustan, the Edetani'^, the Grerundenses'^, the 



1 Their chief cities were Gerunda, the present Gerona, and Ansa or 

 Ticus Ausse, now Tic d'Osona. ^ i^ ^]^q country beyond Gerona. 



3 Living in the upper valley of the river Sicoris or Segre, wliich still 

 retains, from them, the name of Cerdague. 



* The people of the modem Navarre and Guipuzcoa. 



* In the later writers Barcelo, now Barcelona. It was said to have 

 been originally founded by Hercules, and afterwards rebuilt by Hamilcar 

 Barcas, who gave it the name of liis family. Its name as a Roman colony 

 was Colonia Faventia Juha Augusta Pia Barcino. The modern city 

 stands somewhat to the east of the ancient one. 



^ The modem Badalona, two leagues from Barcelona. 



7 On the sea- shore, — the present Pineda. ^ Now the Tordera. 



9 The modem city of Blanos stands on its site. 



^^ Probably the pi'csent Ter or Tet. 



^^ The modem Ampurias. We learn from Strabo that a wall divided 

 the to\Mi of the Greeks from that of the old inhabitants. It was the 

 usual landing-place for travellers from Gaul. It was originally colonized 

 by the Phocaans from Massiha or Marseilles. 



^2 Hardouin says that the Ticher or Tichis is the same with the modern 

 Ter, but in such case Phny would have mentioned it before coming to Em- 

 porise. Its present name however does not appear to be accurately known, 



^3 A promontoi*j' extending from the Pyrcna>an chain, on which a 

 temple of Venus was situate. It is now called Cabo de Cruz. The 

 distance mentioned by Pliny is probably too great. 



^* The people of the present Tortosa. 



'^ Probably not the same people as the Edetani, in whose district Sa- 

 guntum and Valencia were situate. ^^ The people of Gerunda or Gerona. 



