Greek Texts & Translations

from [the mountains]. Situated on the Ebro is the city of Caesar Augusta, ^note and the colony of Celsa, ^note where there is a stone bridge across the river. This country is inhabited by many nations, the best known being that of the Jaccetani. ^note Commencing at the foot of the Pyrenees, it widens out into the plains, and reaches to the districts around Ilerda ^note and Osca, ^note [cities] of the Ilergetes not far distant from the Ebro. It was in these cities, and in Calaguris, ^note a city of the Gascons, as well as those of Tarraco ^note and Hemeroscopium, ^note situated on the coast, that Sertorius sustained the last efforts of the war, after being ejected from the country of the Keltiberians. He died at Osca, and it was near to Ilerda that Afranius and Petreius, Pompey's generals, were afterwards defeated by divus ^note Caesar. Ilerda is distant 160 stadia from the Ebro, which is on its west, about 460 from Tarraco, which is on the south, and 540 from Osca, which lies to the north. ^note Passing through these places from Tarraco to the extremities of the Vascons who dwell by the ocean, near Pompelon ^note and the city of Oeaso ^note situated on the ocean, the route extends 2400 stadia, to the very frontiers of Aquitaine and Iberia. It was in the country of the Jaccetani that Sertorius fought against Pompey, and here afterwards Sextus, Pompey's son, fought against the generals of Caesar. The nation of the Vascons, in which is Pompelon, or Pompey's city, lies north of Jaccetania. 11

The side of the Pyrenees next Iberia is covered with forests containing numerous kinds of trees and evergreens, whilst the side next Keltica is bare: in the midst [the mountains] enclose valleys admirably fitted for the habitation of