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Julium ; Selambina^ ; Abdera^ ; and Murci^, wMch is at the 
boundary of Bsetica. M. Agrippa supposed that all this 
coast was peopled by colonists of Punic origin. Beyond the 
Anas, and facing the Atlantic, is the country of the Bastuli"^ 
and the Turditani. M. Varro informs us, that the Iberians, 
the Persians, the Phoenicians, the Celts, and the Carthagi- 
nians spread themselves over the whole of Spain ; that the 
name "Lusitania" is derived from the games (lusus) of 
Pather Bacchus, or the fury (lyssa^) of his frantic attendants, 
and that Pan^ was the governor of the whole of it. But the 
traditions respecting Hercules^ and Pyrene, as well as Saturn, 
I conceive to be fabulous in the highest degree. 
The Bsetis does not rise, as some writers have asserted, 
near the town of Mentisa^, in the province of Tarraco, but 
in the Tugiensian Porest^ ; and near it rises the river Tader^^, 
which waters the territory of Carthage At Ilorcum^^ it 
viUe says the present Torre de Banas ; others have suggested the town 
of Motril. 
^ Now Salobrena. 
2 Either the present Adra or Abdera : it is uncertain which. 
3 Probably the present Mujacar. D'Anville suggests Ahneria. 
^ Also called Bastitani, a mixed race, partly Iberian and partly Phos- 
nician. 
^ TheGrreek Aucrffa, "frantic rage" or "madness." The etymologies 
here suggested are puerile in the extreme. 
^ Plutarch, quoting from the Twelfth Book of the Tberica of Sosthenes, 
teUs us that, "After Bacchus had conquered Iberia [the present Spain], 
he left Pan to act as his deputy, and he changed its name and called the 
country Pania^ after himself, which afterwards became corrupted into 
7 He alludes to the expedition of Hercules into Spain, of which Dio- 
dorus Siculus makes mention ; also his courtship of the nymph Pyrene, 
the daughter of Bebryx, who was buried by him on the Pyrenaean 
mountains, which thence derived their name. 
^ It is unknown where this town was situate ; Hardouin and D'An- 
ville think it was on the site of the present village of San Thome, once 
an episcopal see, now removed to J aen. The people of Mentisa, men- 
tioned in c. 4, were probably inhabitants of a different place. D'Anville 
in his map has two Mentisas, one ' Oretana,' the other ' Bastitana. 
^ According to D'Anville, the place now called Toia. 
10 Now the Segura. 
11 'Nova' or 'New' Carthage, so called from having been originally 
founded by a colony of Carthaginians B.C. 242. It was situate a little to 
the west of the Saturni Promontorium, or Promontory of Palos. It 
was taken by Scipio Africanus the elder B.C. 210. 
^ The present Lorca. 
