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the Ilorcitam\ the Laminitani, the Mentesani^ both those 

 called Oritani and those called Bastuli, and the Oretani 

 who are surnamed Germani^, the people of Segobriga^ the 

 capital of Celtiberia, those of Toletum^ the capital of Car- 

 petania, situate on the river Tagus, and after them the Via- 

 tiensea and the Virgilienses". 



To the jurisdiction of Clunia^ the Yarduli contribute four- 

 teen nations, of whom we need only particularize the Alba- 

 nenses^, the Turmodigi', consisting of four tribes, among 

 which are the Segisamonenses^" and the Segisamaiulienses. 

 To the same jurisdiction belong the Carietes" and the Ven- 

 nenses with live states, among which are the Velienses. 

 Thither too resort the Pelendones of the Celtiberians, in 

 four different nations, among whom the Numantini'^ were 

 especially famous. Also, among the eighteen states of the 

 Vaccaei, there are the Intercatienses*^ the Pallantini", the 

 Lacobrigenses, and the Caucenses^^ But among the seven 



* The people probably of Eliocroca, now Lorca, on the high road fi^m 

 Carthago Nova to Castulo. 



2 There were two places of the name of Mentesa, one in the district of 

 the Oritani, and the other in that of the Bastitani or Bastiili. 



3 Ptolemy, B. ii., mentions a city of this nation, called ' Oretum G^r- 

 manorum.' It has been supposed that it was the present Calatrava, five 

 leagues from Ciudad Real. 



^ Supposed to be in the vicinity of the present Calatajud. 

 5 The present Toledo. 



8 Their town is supposed to have stood on the site of the present Murcia. 

 7 Now Coruna del Conde. 



^ The people of the present Alava on the Ebro. — A small town there 

 still bears the name of Alvana. 



9 This nation is not mentioned elsewhere. Possibly they are the Mur- 

 bogi, mentioned by Ptolemy. 



^^ Their towii Segisamon was either the present Veyzama in Guipuz- 

 coa, or, more probably, Sasamon, eight leagues north-west of Burgos. 



" The people of Carissa, on the site of the present Carixa near SevUle. 



^ Strabo assigns the Numantini to the Arevacse, and not the Pelen- 

 dones. The ruins of the city of Numantia were still to be seen at Puente 

 Grarray near the city of Soria, in Hardouin's time, the 17th century. 



^3 D' Anville places their city, Intercatia, at the place called Villa nueva 

 de Azuague, forty miles from the present Astorga ; others again make it to 

 have been sixty miles from that place. 



^* Their town was on the site of the modem city of Palencia, on the 

 river Carion. 



1^ The people of Cauca, the present Coca, situate between Segovia and 

 YaUadolid, on the river Eresma. 



