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Mellaria^ Mirobriga^, and Sisapo', in the district of 
Osintias. 
To tlie jurisdiction of Grades belongs Eegina, witb Eoman 
citizens ; and Laepia, Ulia'^, Carisa^ surnamed Aurelia, Urgia^ 
or Castrum Julium, likewise called Csesaris Salutariensis, 
all of which enjoy the Latian rights. The tributary towns 
are Besaro, Belippo'', Barbesula, Lacippo, Baesippo, Callet, 
Cappacum, Oleastro, Ituci, Brana, Lacibi, Saguntia^, and 
Audorisse. 
M. Agrippa has also stated the whole length of this pro- 
vince to be 475 miles^, and its breadth 257 ; but this w^as at 
a time when its boundaries extended to Carthage a circum- 
stance which has often caused great errors in calculations ; 
which are generally the result either of changes effected in the 
limits of provinces, or of the fact that in the reckoning of dis- 
tances the length of the miles has been arbitrarily increased or 
diminished. In some parts too the sea has been long making 
encroachments upon the land, and in others again the shores 
have advanced ; while the course of rivers in this place has 
become more serpentine, in that more direct. And then, 
besides, some writers begin their measurements at one place, 
^ According to Hardouin this was on the site of the modem Fuente 
de la Ovejuna, fourteen leagues from Cordova. 
2 This has been identified by inscriptions with the modern Yilla de 
Capilla. ^ 
3 According to Hardouin, the modern Almaden de la Plata. 
^ Probably the same as the modern Monte Major. 
^ The ruins of this place are probably those seen at Carixa, near 
Bornos, in the vicinity of Seville. ' , 
^ According to Hardouin, the same as 'the modern Las Cabezas, not 
far from Lebrija. 
7 The sites of these two towns are unknown. Bsesippo, Barbesula and 
CaUet have been already mentioned. 
^ The ruins of Saguntia are to be seen between Arcos and Xeres della 
Frontera, on the river Gruadalete ; they bear their ancient name under 
the form of Cigonza. Mela, B. iii. c. 1, says that Oleastro was a grove 
near the Bay of Cadiz. Brana was probably the same place that is men- 
tioned by Ptolemy under the name of Urbona. 
^ We may here mention for the more correct information of the reader 
that the Roman mile consisted of 1000 paces, each pace being five Enghsh 
feet. Hence its length was 1618 Enghsh yards (taking the Roman 
foot at 11-6496 English inches), or 142 yards less than the Enghsh 
statute mile. 
Nova Carthago, or New Carthage. 
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