[1024] Seville. This city was surnamed Julia Romulensis. It was founded by Cæsar, and regarded as the second city of the province, although, as we see, in the time of Strabo it was only third-rate.
[1025] Strabo is the only writer who mentions this city of Bætis. Casaubon and others are inclined to the opinion that the MSS. are corrupted, and that formerly another name stood here.
[1026] This city, the native place of the emperors Trajan and Adrian, and the poet Silius Italicus, was founded by Publius Scipio in the second Punic war, who placed here the soldiers incapacitated from the performance of military service. It is supposed to correspond to Sevilla la Vieja, about a league distant from Seville.
[1027] The Ilipa Ilia of Pliny and Illipula Magna of Ptolemy. Its exact position is not determined.
[1028] Hodie Ecija on the Xenil.
[1029] Carmona.
[1030] Monda, seven leagues west of Malaga.
[1031] Osuna.
[1032] Hodie Martos, Pliny gave it the surname of Augusta Gemella.
[1033] The Itucci of Pliny, to which he gives the surname Virtus Julia.