PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



110 XX. A Pyrcnaei promunturio Hispania incipit,^ 

 anc^ustior non Gallia modo verum etiam semetipsa, 

 ut diximus, inmensum quantum hinc oceano illinc 

 Hiberico mari comprimentibus. ipsa Pyrenaei iuga 

 ab exortu aequinoctiali fusa ^ in oceasum brumalem "^ 

 brexnores latere septentrionali * quam meridiano ^ 

 Hispanias faciunt. proxima ora Citerioris est eius- 

 demque Tarraconensis situs ; a Pyrcnaeo per ocea- 

 num Wsconum saltus, Olarso, \'ardulorum oppida, 

 Morogi, Mcnosca, Vesperies, Amanum portus ubi 



111 nunc Flaviobrica colonia; civitatium novem regio 

 Cantabrorum, flumen Sauga, portus Yictoriac lulio- 

 bricensium (ab co loco fontes Hiberi xL p.), portus 

 Blendium, Orgenomcsci e Cantabris, portus corum 

 Vereasucca, regio Asturum, Noega oppidum, in 

 paeninsula Pcsici ; et dcinde conventus Lucensis, a 

 flumine Na\ialbione Cibarci, Egivarri cognomine 

 Namarini, ladovi, Arroni, Arrotrcbae ; proniun- 

 turium Celticum, amnes I-lorius, Nelo, Celtici 

 cognomine Neri et super Tamarci quorum in pacnin- 

 sula tres arae Sestianae Augusto dicatae, Copori, 



' incipit<(ibi) ? Dellejnen. * i\is& v.l. om. 



' brumali Detlefsen. * septcntrionali v.l. om. 



' brumalem breviores quam latere meridiano Mayhoff. 



" /.e. the eastem extremity of the Pyrcnees, Cape Creux. 



* l.e. than the sizc into which it widens out south and west 

 of where the Pyrenees cut it off from France. Oceanus means 

 the Bay of Biecay as part of the Atlantic; Hibericum Mare 

 is the Guif of Lyons, SimLs Gallicus, which is more usually 

 deacribed as part of Mare Balearicum, the name Mare Hiberi- 

 cum being kept for the part of the Meditcrranean between 

 the Balearic Isiands and the .Straits of Gibraitar. 



• Both text and mcAning are extremely doubtful. Possibly 

 what is meant is that, whcreas the south of Spain ia all sea- 



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