BOOK III. I. 8-10 



Lusitania, and that Pan was thc o-ovcrnor of the whole 

 of it. The stories rehited of Hercules, Pyrene or 

 Saturn I regard as absolutely mythical. 



The Guadalquivir rises in the province of Tarragon, The Tirer 

 not at the town of Mentesa, as some authorities quin^' 

 have said, but in the Tugiensian Forest bordered by 

 the river Segura that waters the territory of Carta- 

 o-ena ; at Lorea it avoids the Sepolcro de Scipion 

 and, turning westward, makes for the Atlantic 

 Ocean, giving its name to the province ; it is first 

 of moderate size, but it receives many tributaries, 

 from which it takes their glory as well as their waters. 

 It first enters Baetica at Ossigetania, ghding gently 

 in a picturesque channel past a scries of to^vns situated 

 on both its banks. 



Between this river and the Ocean coast the most 

 famous places inland are : Segida suruamed Augurina ; 

 JuHa or Fidentia ; Urgao or Alba ; Ebui'a or CeriaHs ; 

 Iliberri or Liberini ; Ihpula or Laus ; Artigi or 

 Juhenses; Vesci or Faventia; SingiH, Ategua, 

 Arialdunum, Agla Minor, Bacbro, Castra Vinaria, 

 Cisimbrium,New Hippo, IHurco, Osca, Oscua, Sucaelo, 

 Unditanum, Old Tucci— all of which are places in 

 that part of Bastetania which stretches towards the 

 sea. In the jurisdiction of Cordova in the neighbour- 

 hood of the actual river are Ossigi surnamed La- 

 tonium, Ihturgi or Forum Juhum, Ipra, Isturgi or 

 Triumphale, Sucia, and 17 milcs inland Obulco or 

 Pontificensc, then Ripa, Epora (a treaty town), 

 SaciU Martiahum, Onuba, and on the riglit bank 

 the colonv of Cordova surnamed Patricia. At this 

 point the Guadalquivir first becomes navigable, and 

 thcre are the towns of Carbula and Detunda, the river 

 Xenil flowing into the Guadakpiivir on the same side. 



