[955] With the Arabian El prefixed, this has formed the name of the famous port of Alicant.
[956] Now Denia, a thriving town.
[957] Now called the Xucar.
[958] Now called Albufera.
[959] The present city of Valencia.
[960] Or Turia, now the Guadalaviar.
[961] Or Saguntus, famed for the fidelity of its inhabitants to the Roman cause: after a siege of nine months, rather than submit to the Carthaginians under Hannibal, they set fire to their town and perished in the flames, B.C. 219. It was rebuilt eight years afterwards and made a Roman colony. The ruins of the ancient town, which was said to have been originally founded by Greeks from Zacynthus, are still to be seen, and the ancient walls (muri veteres) give name to the present Murviedro, which is built on its site.
[962] Now the Murviedro, which flows past the city of that name and the town of Segorbe.
[963] Dertosa, the present Tortosa, is supposed to have been inhabited by them.
[964] Now the Ebro.