[2] After these are Italica,
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and Ilipa,
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situated on the Guadalquiver; farther on are Astygis,
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Carmo,
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and Obulco; and besides these Munda,
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Ategua, Urso,
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Tukkis,
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Julia,
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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
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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
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by the generals
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of Antony, and executed. Amongst the Kelts the most famous place is Conistorgis.
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Upon the estuaries is Asta,
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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.