BOOK IV. xx. iio-iii 



XX. At the promontory " of the Pyrenees begins Spain. 

 Spain, which is narrower not only than Gaul biit even 

 than itself,'' as we have said, seeing how enormously 

 it is pressed together on one side by the ocean and 

 on the other by the Iberian Sea. The actual chain 

 of the Pyrenees, spreading from due east to south- 

 west, makes the Spanish provinces shortcr on thc 

 northern side than on the southern.<^ On the nearest 

 coast is situated Hither or Tarragonian Spain ; along 

 the sea-coast '^ from the Pyrenees are the forest of 

 the Vascones, Olarso, the towns of the Varduh, 

 Morogi, Menosca, Vesperies and the port of Amanum, 

 the present site of the colony of Flaviobrica ; then 

 the district of the nine states of the Cantabri, the 

 river Sauga, the port of Victory of the JuHobricenses ^ 

 (from this place the sources of the Ebro are 40 miles 

 distant), the port of Blendium, the Orgenomesci (a 

 branch of the Cantabrians), their port Vereasueca, 

 the district of the Asturcs, the town of Noega,/the 

 Pesici on a peninsula ; and then, belonging to the 

 jurisdiction of Lugo, startingfromthe river Navialbio, 

 the Cibarci, tlie Egivarri surnamed Namarini, 

 ladovi, Arroni, Arrotrebae ; the Celtic Promontory,? 

 the rivers Florius and Nelo, the Celts surnamed Neri, 

 and above them the Tamarci, on wliose peninsula 

 arethe three Altars of Scstius dcdicated to Augustus, 



coast, part of the ndrthem boundary is formed by tho 

 Pyrenees. That range, however, runs almost due east and 

 west, though mountainous country does stretch from it S.W. 

 across the peninsula. 



•^ I.e. along the Spanish coast of the Bay of Biscay going 

 wcstward. 



• Now Santander. 

 f Now Navia. 



* FiDistcrre. 



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