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Nova or New Hippo\ Ilurco^, Osca^, Escua^, Sucubo^ Nudi- 

 tanum, Old Tuatr ; all which towns are in that part of Basti- 

 tania which extends towards the sea, but in the jurisdiction^ of 

 Corduba. In the neighbourhood of the river itself is Ossigi^ 

 also surnamed Laconicum, Iliturgi" or Forum Julium, Ipas- 

 turgi^° or Triumphale, Setia, and, fourteen miles inland, 

 Obulco^\ which is also called Pontificense. 



Next to these comes Epora^^, a federate town, Sacili"'' 

 Martialium, and Onoba". On the right bank is Corduba, 

 a Roman colony, surnamed Patricia^* ; here the Baetia first 

 becomes na\agable. There are also the towns of Carbula 



* Its present site is unknown. 



2 According toD'Anville, the present Puente de Pinos, six leagues north 

 of Granada. Others take it to be Illora, south of Alcala la Real. 



* The present Huesca, according to Hardouin ; more probably, how- 

 ever, Huector, on the banks of the river G^enil. 



* Perhaps Escusar, five leagues firom Granada. But according to some 

 it is the same as Truelo or Eruelo. 



^ Called Ucubis by Hirtius. Morales suggests that it is Sierra la 

 Honda, but Pinet says Stoponda. 



" The sites of this and the preceding place are unknown. 



? In relation to the ' conventus juridicus,' we may here observe that 

 under the Roman sway, in order to lacihtate the administration of jus- 

 tice, a province was divided into a number of districts or circuits, each of 

 which was so called, as also ' forum ' or ' jurisdictio.' At certain times of 

 the year fixed by the proconsvd or chief magistrate, the people assembled 

 in the chief tovm of the district (whence the name ' conventus '), upon 

 wliich judges wore selected to try the causes of htigant parties. 



8 Probably near the town at the present day called Espelui. Strabo, 

 in Book iii., tells us that Laconian institutions and customs were prevalent 

 in some parts of Spain. 



' This place was ravaged by fire and levelled with the groimd by the 

 troops of Scipio, in consequence of the vigorous defence they had made, 

 and the losses they had caused to the Roman army. It probably stood 

 about four miles from the present city of Baeza. 



^^ The sites of this place and the next are unknown. 



^^ Most probably the present town of Porcuna. TJbeda or Ubedos 

 has also been suggested. 



^ The present town of Montoro. ^^ Now Alcoorrucen, near Perabad. 



^* Ansart suggests that the reading is not Sacih of the Iilartiales, 

 but Onoba of the Martiales, to distinguish it from Onoba ^stuaria, 

 previously mentioned. It is not improbable that the place was so called 

 from the Martian or Martial legion having originally colonized it. The 

 site of Onoba is unknown. 



^5 Cordova was so called from the great nimiber of patricians, who were 

 among the original colonists, when it was founded by Mai-cellus. To the 



