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ACCOUNT OE COUOTBIES, &C. 
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Nova or NewHippo^ Ilurco^, Osca^, Escua^, Sucubo^ Nudi- 
tanum, Old Tuati^ ; 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 Eoman colon j, surnamed Patricia ; here the Bsetis first 
becomes navigable. There are also the towns of Carbula 
1 Its present site is unknown. 
2 According toD'Anville, the present Puente de Piaos, six leagues north 
of Grranada. Others take it to be Illora, south of Alcala la Real. 
8 The present Huesca, according to Hardouin j more probably, how- 
ever, Huector, on the banks of the river Grenil. 
Perhaps Escusar, jB.ve leagues from Grranada. But according to some 
it is the same as Truelo or Eruelo. 
^ Called TJcubis by Hirtius. Morales suggests that it is Sierra la 
Eonda, but Pinet says Stoponda. 
^ The sites of this and the preceding place are unknown. 
7 In relation to the ' conventus juridicus,' we may here observe that 
under the Roman sway, in order to facilitate 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 proconsul or chief magistrate, the people assembled 
in the chief town of the district (whence the name * conventus '), upon 
which judges were 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 ground by the 
troops of Scipio, in consequence of the vigorous defence they had made, 
and the losses they had caused to the Eoman army. It probably stood 
about four miles from the present city of Baeza. 
10 (jijjg si^eg of this place and the next are unknown. 
Most probably the present town of Porcuna. Ubeda or Ubedos 
has also been suggested. 
^2 Thepresent town of Mont oro. I5"ow Alcoorrucen, near Perabad. 
Ansart suggests that the reading is not Sacih of the Martiales, 
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. 
15 Cordova was so called from the great nimiber of patricians, who were 
among the original colonists, when it was founded by MarceUus. To the 
