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going back from the foot of tlie Pyrenees, are tlie Ausetani\ 
theLaeetani^, and along the Pyrenees, the Cerretani^, next to 
whom are the Vascones'*. On the coast is the colony of 
Barcino^ surnamedPaventia; BaBtulo^ and Iluro'', towns with 
Roman citizens ; the river Larnum^, Blandse^, the river Alba 
Emporise^^ a city consisting of two parts, one peopled by the 
original inhabitants, the other by the Glreek descendants 
of the Phocaeans ; and the river Ticher^^. Prom this to the 
Venus Pyrensea^^, on the other side of the Promontory, is a 
distance of forty miles. 
I shall now proceed to give an account of the more re- 
markable things in these several jurisdictions, in addition to 
those which have been already mentioned. Forty-three 
different peoples are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of 
Tarraco : of these the most famous are— holding the rights 
of Roman citizens, the Dertusani^^ and the Bisgargitani ; 
enjoying Latian rights, the Ausetani, and the Cerretani, both 
Julian and Augustan, the Edetani^^, the Grerundenses^^, the 
I Their chief cities were Grerunda, the present Grerona, and Ausa or 
Yicus Ausse, now Vic d'Osona. ^ the country beyond Gerona. 
3 Living in the upper valley of the river Sicoris or Segre, which still 
retains, from them, the name of Cerdague. 
^ The people of the modern Navarre and Gruipuzcoa. 
^ In the later writers Barcelo, now Barcelona. It was said to have 
been originally founded by Hercules, and afterwards rebuilt by HamUcar 
Barcas, who gave it the name of his family. Its name as a Roman colony 
was Colonia Faventia Juha Augusta Pia Barcino. The modern city 
stands somewhat to the east of the ancient one. 
^ The modern Badalona, two leagues from Barcelona. 
7 On the sea- shore, — the present Pineda. ^ Now the Tordera. 
9 The modern city of Blanos stands on its site. 
10 Probably the present Ter or Tet. 
II The modern Ampurias. We learn from Strabo that a wall divided 
the town of the Greeks from that of the old inhabitants. It was the 
usual landing-place for travellers from Gaul. It was originally colonized 
by the Phocseans from Massiha or Marseilles. 
12 Hardouin says that the Ticher or Tichis is the same with the modern 
Ter, but in such case PHny would have mentioned it before coming to Em- 
porise. Its present name however does not appear to be accurately known. 
13 A promontory extendiag from the Pyrensean chain, on which a 
temple of Yenus was situate. It is now called Cabo de Cruz. The 
distance mentioned by Pliny is probably too great. 
1^ The people of the present Tortosa. 
1^ Probably not the same people as the Edetani, in whose district Sa« 
guntum and Yalencia were situate. i^ The people of Gerunda or Gerona. 
