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Tales in a high Degree. Boetls, in the Tarraconensian Pro- 

 vince, rising, not as some have said, at the Town Mentesa, 

 but in the Forest Tugrensis, which the River Tader watereth, 

 as it doth the Carthaginian Country at Ilorcum 1 , shunneth 

 the Funeral Pile of Scipio : and, turning into the West, 

 maketh toward the Atlantic Ocean, adopting the Province, 

 is at first small, but receiveth many other Rivers, from 

 which it taketh away both their Fame and their Waters. 

 And first being entered from Ossigitania into Boetica, running 

 gently with a pleasant Channel, it hath many Towns, both 

 on the left Hand and the right, seated upon it. The most 

 famous between it and the Sea-coast, in the Mediterranean, 

 are Segeda, surnamed Augurina : Julia, which is also called 

 Fidentia : Virgao, otherwise Alba : Ebura, otherwise Cere- 

 alis: Illiberi, which is also Liberini: Ilipua, named likewise 

 Laus. Artigi, or Julienses : Vesci, the same as Faventia : 

 Singilia, Hegua, Arialdunum, Agla the Less, Baebro, Castra 

 Vinaria, Episibrium, Hipponova, Ilurco, Osca, Escua, Suc- 

 cubo, Nuditanum, Tucci the Old, all which belong to Basti- 

 tania, lying toward the Sea. But within the Jurisdiction of 

 Corduba, about the very River standeth the Town Ossigi, 

 which is surnamed Laconicum : llliturgi, called also Forum 

 Julium: Ipasturgi, the same as Triumphal^ ; Sitia : and four- 

 teen Miles within the Country, Obulco, which is named 

 Pontificense\ And presently Ripepora. a Town of the Con- 

 federates, Sacili, Martialum, Onoba. And on the right Hand 

 Corduba, surnamed Colonia Patritia: and then beginneth 

 Bcetis to be navigable. The Towns Carbulo, Decuma, the 



* The river makes a bend to avoid the funeral pile of Cneius Stipio, 

 concerning the manner of whose death there is some difference of opinion. 

 Apianus, in " Iberic," p. 263, says, that the victorious forces of Hasdrubal 

 drove him, with a band of his followers, into a certain castle, where they 

 were all destroyed by fire. Livy tells us (lib. xxv. 36), that " Cneius 

 Scipio, according to some accounts, was killed on the hill, in the first as- 

 sault : according to others, he fled into a castle standing near the camp : 

 this was surrounded with fire, and the doors, which were too strong to be 

 forced, being then burned, they were taken ; and all within, together with 

 the general himself, were put to death." The modern name of Ilorcum 

 is Lorquinum, in the province of Murcia. Wern. Club. 



