BOOK IV. xxii. 114-117 



the error being obvious; they have put here, with 

 an alteration in the spelling of the name, the Arro- 

 trebae, whom we spoke of before we came to the 

 Celtic Promontory. ^ ni. 



Mistakes have also been made in regard to the 

 important rivers. From the Minho, which we spoke 

 of above, the distance to the Agueda according to § 112. 

 Varro is 200 miles, though others place the latter 

 elsewhere aiid call it the Limaea ; in early times it 

 was called the River of Forgetfulness, and a great 

 many stories were told about it. Two hundred miles 

 from the Douro is the Tagus, the Mondego coming 

 between them ; the Tagus is famous for its auriferous 

 sands. At a distance of nearly 160 miles from the 

 Tagus is Cape St. Vincent, projecting from nearly 

 the middle of the front of Spain. The distance from 

 Cape St. Vincent to the middle of the Pyrenees is 

 stated by Varro to amount to 1400 miles ; from St. 

 VMncent to the Guadiafia, which we indicated as the 

 boundary between Lusitania and Baetica, he puts 

 at 126 miles, the distance from the Guadiana to 

 Cadiz adding another 102 miles. 



The peoples are the Celtici, the TurduH, and on the 

 Tagus the V^ettones ; and between the Guadiana and 

 Cape St. Vincent the Lusitanians. The notable 

 towns on the coast, beginning at the Tagus, are : 

 Lisbon, famous for its mares which conceive from viii. lee 

 the west wind ; Alcazar do Sal, called the Imperial 

 City ; Santiago de Cacem ; Cape St. Vincent, and the 

 other promontory called the Wedge ; <» and the towns 

 of Estombar, Tavira and Mertola. 



The wliole province is divided into three associa- organiiation 

 tions, centred at Merida, Beja and Santarem. It o/S,"'' 

 consists of 45 peoples in all, among whom there ai'e 



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