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EBU´RA

EBU´RA or E´BORA.


1.

Ἐβοῦρα, Ἐβόρα, S. Lucar de Barrameda), a city and fortress of the Turduli, in Hispania Baetica, at the mouth of the river Baetis (Guadalquivir), on its left bank. (Strab. iii. p.140; Mela, 3.1, Castellum Ebora in litore; Ptol. 2.4.11; Itin. Ant. p. 426; Steph. B. sub voce Inscr. ap. Gruter, p. 489.)


2.

EBURA CEREALIS, an inland city of Hispania Baetica, probably in the neighbourhood of Santa [p. 1.799]Cruz. (Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3; Inscr. ap. Muratori, p. 461; Florez, Esp. S. vol. xii. p. 390; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 370.)


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Ἐβόρα), an inland city of the Edetani, in Hispania Tarraconensis, SE. of Caesaraugusta, only mentioned by Ptolemy (2.6.63). (Brietius, Tab. Parall. vol. i. p. 268; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 417.)


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Mela (3.1) mentions an Ebora as a port of the Celtici, at the NW. extremity of the peninsula, which Ukert takes to be Barre on the Tambre. (Ukert, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 438.) [P.S]

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