BRA´CARA AUGUSTA
BRA´CARA AUGUSTA (
Βραίκαρ Αὐγουστα,
Ptol. 2.6.39; Augusta Bracaria, Geog. Rav. 4.43;
Braga, Ru.), a city in the NW. of Hispania Tarraconensis, the capital of the Callaïci Bracarii, who dwelt between the rivers Durius and Minus, and the seat of a conventus juridicus.
It stood at the meeting of four roads, some distance from the sea, and not far from the left bank of the river Naebis (
Cavado). Among its ruins are the remains of an aqueduct and amphitheatre. (
Plin. Nat. 4.20. s. 34;
Itin. Ant. pp. 420, 422, 423, 427, 429; Auson.
de Nob. Urb. 8,
quaeque sinu pelagi jactat se Bracara dives; Morales,
Ant. pp. 102, 103; Miñano,
Diccion. vol. ii. p. 136.)
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