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of 160 miles from it is the Sacred Promontory^ projecting 

 from nearly the very middle of the front- of JSpaiu. From 

 this spot to the middle of the Pyrenees, A^arro says, is a 

 distance of 1400 miles ; while to the Anas, by which we 

 have mentioned^ Lusitania as being separated from Ba^tica, 

 is 126 miles, it being 102 more to Gades. 



The peoples are the Celtici, the Turduli, and, about the 

 Tagus, the Vettones'*. From the river Anas to the Sacred 

 Promontory* are the Lusitani. The cities worthy of men- 

 tion on the coast, beginning from the Tagus, are that of 

 Olisipo^, famous for its mares, wliich conceive^ from the 

 west wind ; Salacia"^, Avhich is surnamed the Imperial 

 City ; Merobrica'-' ; and then the Sacred Promontory, viith 

 the other known by the name of Cuneus^", and the towns of 

 Ossonoba^\ Balsa^-, and Myrtili^^. 



The whole of this province is divided into three jurisdic- 

 tions, those of Emerita, Pax, and Scalabis. It contains in 

 all forty-six peoples, among whom there are five colonies, 



^ Now Cape St. Tincent. 



^ Pliny contmues his error here, in taking part of the -western side of 

 Spain for the north, and part of the southern coast for the western. 



3 B. iii. c. 2. 



■* With the Vettones, situate in the province of the Alentcjo. See 

 B. iii. c. 3. 



^ In the present province of Algarve. 



^ Now Lisbon. Botli Strabo, iSohnus, and Martianus Capella make 

 mention of a stoi"y that Ulysses came to Spain and founded this city. 



7 See B. viii. c. 67 of the present work. 



^ According to llardouin, followed by D'Anville and Uckert, tliis 

 place gives name to Alcazar do Sal, nearly midway between Evora and 

 the sea-shore. Manncrt says Setuval, wliich D'Anville however supposes 

 to be the ancient Cetobriga. 



^ On its site stands Santiago de Cacem, nearly midway between Lisbon 

 and Cape St. Tincent. 



^^ Or tlie " Wedge," generally supposed to be Cabo de Santa ^Maria. 

 Ansart however tliinks that it is the Punta de Sagres, near Cape St. 

 Vincent. Phny's words indeed seem to imply a closer proximity than 

 that of Capes St. Vincent and Santa Maria. 



^' According to llardouin, the modem Estombar; according to 

 D'Anville, in the vicuiity of Faro ; but ten leagues from that place, ac- 

 cording to Manncrt. 



^- Hardouin and D'Anville are of ophiion that Tavii*a occupies 

 its site. 



^ Now Mertola, on the river Guadiana. 



