Greek Texts & Translations

carried on here, although at the present moment the city of Baetis ^note though not so finely built, is outshining it, on account of the honour it has received from the soldiers of Caesar taking up their quarters there. 2

After these are Italica, ^note and Ilipa, ^note situated on the Guadalquiver; farther on are Astygis, ^note Carmo, ^note and Obulco; and besides these Munda, ^note Ategua, Urso, ^note Tukkis, ^note Julia, ^note and Aegua, where the sons of Pompey were defeated. None of these places are far from Corduba. Munda is in some sort regarded as the metropolis of the whole district. This place is distant from Carteia 1400 ^note stadia, and it was here that Cnaeus fled after his defeat, and sailing thence landed on a rocky height overlooking the sea, where he was murdered. His brother Sextus, having escaped from Corduba, after carrying on the war for a short time in Spain, caused a revolt in Sicily. Flying thence into Asia he was seized at Miletus ^note by the generals ^note of Antony, and executed. Amongst the Kelts the most famous place is Conistorgis. ^note Upon the estuaries is Asta, ^note in which the Gaditani mostly hold their assemblies; it is opposite the sea-port of the island, at a distance of not more than 100 stadia. 3

A vast number of people dwell along the Guadalquiver; and you may sail up it almost 1200 stadia from the sea to Corduba, and the places a little higher up. The banks and little islets of this river are cultivated with the greatest diligence.