BOOK III. iii. 19-22 



on the Tagus, and iiext to thcm the Vaccaei, the 

 Vettones and the Celtiberian Arevaci. The to^vns 

 nearest the coast are Urci and Barea that belongs to 

 Baetica, then the district of Bastitania, next after 

 which comes Contestania and the colony of New 

 Carthage, from the promontory of which, called the 

 Cape of Saturn, the crossing to Caesarea, a city of 

 Mauretania, is 197 miles. There remain to be 

 mcntioncd on the coast the river Tader and the 

 tax-free colony of Ihci, from which the Ihcitan Gulf 

 takes its name ; to this colony the Icositani are 

 subordinate. Next come Lucentum, with Latin 

 rights, Dianium, a tributar)' town, the river Sucro 

 and in former days a to^NTi of the same name, forming 

 the boundary of Contestania. The district of Ede- 

 tania comes next, with a lovely expanse of lake in 

 front of it, and reaching back to Celtiberia. The 

 colony of Valencia three miles from the sea, the river 

 Turium, Saguntum, also three miles from the sea, 

 a town with Roman citizensliip, famous for its loyalty," 

 and the river Udiva. The district of the Ilergaones, 

 the river Ebro, rich in ship-borne trade, rising in the 

 district of the Cantabri not far from the to^^Ti of 

 Juhobrica, with a com-se of 450 miles, for 260 of which 

 from the town of Vareia it is navigable for ships, and 

 because of it the Greelcs have called the whole of 

 Spain by the name of Iberia. Next the district of 

 Cessetania, the river Subi, the colony Tarragon, 

 which was founded by the Scipios, as Cartagena was 

 by the Cartliaginians. The district of thc Ilergetes 

 comes next, the town of .Subur and the river Ilubri- 

 catum, after which begin the Laeetani and the Indi- 

 getes. After them in the foUowing order proceeding 

 inland from the foot of the Pyrenees are the Ausetani, 



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