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the Ilorcitani\ the Lamiuitani, the Meiitesani-, both those 

 called Oritani and those called Bastiili, aud the Oretani 

 who are surnamed Gcrmani^, the people oi* Segohriga'* the 

 capital of Celtiberia, those of Toletum^ the capital of Car- 

 petania, situate on the river Tagus, aud after them the Yia- 

 tienses and the Yirgilienses^. 



To the jurisdiction of Clunia^ the A^arduli contribute four- 

 teen nations, of whom we need only particularize the Alba- 

 nenses^, the Turmodigi^, consisting of four tribes, among 

 which are the Segisamonenses^" and the Segisamaiulienses. 

 To the same jurisdiction belong the Carietes^^ and the Ven- 

 nenses with five states, among which are the Yelienses. 

 Thither too resort the Pelendones of the Celtiberians, in 

 four different nations, among whom the Numantini'- were 

 especially famous. Also, among the eighteen states of the 

 Yacccei, there are the Intercatienses^^, the Pallantini^^, the 

 Lacobrigenses, and the Caucenses^^ But among the seven 



^ The people pi'obably of EHocroca, now Lorca, on the high road from 

 Carthago Nova to Castulo. 



2 There were two places of the name of Mentesa, one in the district of 

 the Oritani, and the other in that of the Bastitani or Bastuli. 



3 Ptolemy, B. ii., mentions a city of this nation, called ' Oretum Grer- 

 manorum.' It has been supposed that it was the present Calatrava, five 

 leagues from Ciudad Real. 



* Supposed to be in the vicinity of the present Calatajud. 



^ The present Toledo. 



^ Their town is supposed to have stood on the site of the present Murcia. 



7 Now Coruna del Conde. 



^ The people of the present Alava on the Ebro. — A small town there 

 stiU bears the name of Alvana. 



^ This nation is not mentioned elsewhere. Possibly they are the Mur- 

 bogi, mentioned by Ptolemy. 



*" Their town Segisamon was either the present Yeyzama in Guipuz- 

 coa, or, more probably, Sasamon, eight leagues north- west of Burgos. 



^' The people of Carissa, on the site of the present Carixa near Seville. 



^2 Strabo assigns the Numantini to the Arovaca;, and not the Pelen- 

 dones. The ruins of the city of Nuraantia were still to be seen at Puente 

 Garray near the city of Soriu, in IIardouin"s time, the 17th century. 



^3 D'Anville places their city, Intercatia, at the place called Villa nueva 

 de Azviague, forty miles from the present Aetorga ; others again make it to 

 have been sixty miles fron\ that place. 



'^ Their town was on the site of the modern city of Palencia, on tlic 

 river Carion. 



'^ The people of Cauca, the present Coca, situate between Segovia and 

 Valladohd, on the river Eresma. 



