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of 160 miles from it is the Sacred Promontory^ projecting 
from nearly the very middle of the front^ of Spain. From 
this spot to the middle of the Pyrenees, Yarro says, is a 
distance of 1400 miles ; while to the Anas, by which we 
have mentioned^ Lusitania as being separated from Bsetica, 
is 126 miles, it being 102 more to (Jades. 
The peoples are the Celtici, the Turduli, and, about the 
Tagus, the Yettones^. From the river Anas to the Sacred 
Promontory^ are the Lusitani. The cities worthy of men- 
tion on the coast, beginning from the Tagns, are that of 
Olisipo^, famous for its mares, which conceive'' from the 
west wind; Salacia^, which is surnamed the Imperial 
City ; Merobrica^ ; and then the Sacred Promontory, with 
the other known by the name of Cuneus^^, and the towns of 
Ossonoba^^ Balsa^^, and Myrtili^^. 
The whole of this province is divided into three jurisdic- 
tions, those of Emerita, Pax, and Scalabis. It contains in 
all forty-six peoples, among whom there are five colonies, 
^ Now Cape St. Yincent. 
2 Pliny continues his error here, in taking part of the western side of 
Spain for the north, and part of the southern coast for the western. 
3 B. iii. c. 2. 
^ "With the Yettones, situate in the province of the Alentejo. See 
B. iii. c. 3. 
^ In the present province of Algarve. 
^ Now Lisbon. Both Strabo, SoUnus, and Martianus Capella make 
mention of a story that Ulysses came to Spain and founded this city. 
7 See B. viii. c. 67 of the present work. 
5 According to Hardouin, followed by D'Anville and Uckert, this 
place gives name to Alcazar do Sal, nearly midway between Evora and 
the sea-shore. Mannert says Setuval, which D'Anville however supposes 
to be the ancient Cetobriga. 
^ On its site stands Santiago de Cacem, nearly midway between Lisbon 
and Cape St. Yincent. 
^0 Or the " Wedge," generally supposed to be Cabo de Santa Maria. 
Ansart however thinks that it is the Punta de Sagres, near Capo St. 
Yincent. Pliny's words indeed seem to imply a closer proximity than 
that of Capes St. Yincent and Santa Maria. 
According to Hardouin, the modern Estombar; according to 
D'Anville, in the vicinity of Faro ; but ten leagues from that place, ac- 
cording to Mannert. 
^2 Hardouin and D'Anville are of opinion that Tavira occupies 
its site. 
^3 Now Mertola, on the river Gruadiana. 
