Pliny: Natural History, Vol. II

the Tagus, the Carpetani; next to them the Vaccaei, the Vettones, and the Celtiberian Arevaci. The towns nearest the coast are Urci and Barea, which is ascribed to Baetica; then the region of Bastitania; immediately after, Contestania, and the colony of Carthago Nova New Carthage, from whose promontory, which is called Saturn's, the crossing to the city of Caesarea in Mauretania is 187 miles. The remaining places on the coast are the river Tader and the tax-exempt colony of Ilici, from which the Ilicitan Gulf takes its name; the Icositani are contributory to it.
20 Next is Lucentum, which has Latin rights; the tributary town of Dianium; the river Sucro, and the town of the same name that existed formerly; this forms the boundary of Contestania. The region of Edetania follows, with a pleasant lagoon stretching before it, extending back toward the Celtiberians. The colony of Valentia is three miles from the sea, as is the river Turium; and at the same distance from the sea is Saguntum, a town of Roman citizens, Rather than surrender to Hannibal, the Saguntines set fire to their town and perished in the flames, 219 B.C. The town was rebuilt eight years later. noble for its loyalty, and the river Udiva.
21 The region of the Ilergaones, the river Hiberus Ebro, which is rich in shipping commerce, rises among the Cantabri not far from the town of Iuliobrica and flows for 450 miles; it is capable of bearing ships for 260 miles from the town of Vareia, and because of this river, the Greeks have called the whole of Spain Iberia. The region of Cessetania, the river Subi, and the colony of Tarracon, a work of the Scipios, just as Carthago was of the Carthaginians. The region of the Ilergetes, the town of Subur, the river Rubricatum, from which the Laeetani and
22 Indigetes begin. After them, in the order to be described while receding inland from the roots of the Pyrenees, are the Ausetani, the Iacetani, and through