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plii^y's natural history. [Book III. 
and Detunda\ and the river Singulis^, wMcli falls into the 
Baetis on the same side. 
The towns in the jurisdiction of Hispalis are the following : 
Celti, Arua^, Canama^, Evia, Ilipa^, surnamed Ilia, and Ita- 
lica^. On the left of the river is the colony of Hispalis^ named 
Eomnliensis, and, on the opposite side^, the town of Osset^, 
surnamed Julia Constantia, Vergentum, or Juli Grenius^^, 
Orippo, Caura^\ Siarum, and the river Menoba^^, which 
enters the Bsetis on its right bank. Between the aestuaries 
of the Bsetis lie the towns of Nebrissa^^, surnamed Veneria, 
and of Colobona^^. The colonies are, Asta^^, which is also 
called Kegia, and, more inland, that of Aside surnamed 
Csesariana. 
The river Singulis, discharging itself into the Bsetis at the 
place already mentioned, washes the colony of Astigi^^, sur- 
present day it is noted for the pride of its nobles. The Grreat Captain. 
Gonzalo de Cordova used to say, that " other towns might be better to 
live in, but there was none better to be born in." It was the birth-place 
of Lucan and the two Senecas. 
^ The site of these two places is unknown at the present day. 
2 Now called by the similar name of Genii or Xenil. 
3 Perhaps the present Alcolea. 
^ Perhaps the Cantillana of the present day : there is, however, the 
greatest uncertainty as to the sites of these places. 
^ According to Hardouin, the modem city of Penaflor : D'Anville 
places it about two leagues thence, and near the city of Lora. 
^ Now Sevilla la Yieja, or Old Seville ; called by the lower classes 
Santi-pone. 
^ Now Seville. This colony was founded by Juhus Caesar, and also 
bore the name of Juha Romula. * Or north side of the river. 
^ Probably on the site of the present Alcala del Rio. 
' The [good] genius of Juhus/ probably meaning Csesar. Nothing 
seems to be known of its site. 
^1 Caura may be the present Coria, a town three leagues from Seville. 
^2 Probably the 'Rio Guadalete. 
Either the present Sebrija, or in the vicinity of the city of -San 
Lucar. Probably the present Bonania. 
1^ Probably between Trebujena and the city of Xeres. It was the 
usual place of meeting for the people of the territory of Gades ; and its 
importance may be judged from its appellation ' E-egia ' or ' royal,' and its 
numerous coins. Its ruins are still to be seen on a hill there. 
It is not improbable that this was the present city of Xeres. Some 
geographers however take it to be that of Medina Sidonia, and look 
upon Xeres as the site of the ancient Asta. 
^7 Now Ecija. It stood on the plain of the Bsetis, some distance south 
of the river, on its tributary the Singulis or Xenil. 
