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tlie Ilorcitani^ the Laminitani, the Mentesani^, both those 
called Oritani and those called Bastuli, and the Oretani 
who are surnamed Germani^, the people of Segobriga'^ the 
capital of Celtiberia, those of Toletum^ the capital of Car- 
petania, situate on the river Tagus, and after them the Via- 
tienses and the Virgilienses^. 
To the jurisdiction of Clunia'^ the Yarduli contribute four- 
teen nations, of whom we need only particularize the Alba- 
nenses^, the Turmodigi^, consisting of four tribes, among 
which, are the Segisamonenses^^ and the Segisamaiulienses. 
To the same jurisdiction belong the Carietes^^ and the Ven- 
nenses with five states, among which are the Velienses. 
Thither too resort the Pelendones of the Celtiberians, in 
four different nations, among whom the Numantini^^ were 
especially famous. Also, among the eighteen states of the 
Vaccsei, there are the Intercatienses^^, the Pallantini^"^, the 
Lacobrigenses, and the Caucenses^^ But among the seven 
^ The people probably of Ehocroca, now Lorca, on the high road from 
Carthago Nova to Castulo. 
2 There were two places of the name of Mentesa, one in the district of 
the Oritani, and the other in that of the Bastitani or Bastuli. 
3 Ptolemy, B. ii., mentions a city of this nation, called ' Oretum Ger- 
manorum.' It has been supposed that it was the present Calatrava, five 
leagues from Ciudad Eeal. 
'* Supposed to be in the vicinity of the present Calatajud. 
^ The present Toledo. 
6 Their town is supposed to have stood on the site of the present Murcia. 
7 Now Coruiia del Conde. 
^ The people of the present Alava on the Ebro. — A small town there 
stni bears the name of Alvana. 
9 This nation is not mentioned elsewhere. Possibly they are the Mur- 
bogi, mentioned by Ptolemy. 
10 Their town Segisamon was either the present Yeyzama in Gruipuz- 
coa, or, more probably, Sasamon, eight leagues north-west of Burgos. 
The people of Carissa, on the site of the present Carixa near Seville. 
^2 Strabo assigns the Numantini to the Arevacse. and not the Pelen- 
dones. The ruins of the city of Numantia were still to be seen at Puente 
Garray near the city of Soria, in Hardouin's time, the l7th century. 
13 D' Anville places their city, Intercatia, at the place called Yilla nueva 
de Azuague, forty miles from the present Astorga j others again make it to 
have been sixty miles from that place, 
^ 14 Their town was on the site of the modern city of Palencia, on the 
river Carion. 
1^ The people of Cauca, the present Coca, situate between Segovia and 
Valladolid, on the river Eresma. 
