BADI´A
BADI´A or
BATHEIA (
Βαθεῖα, Plut.), a town of Spain, only mentioned as the scene of an incident related of the elder Scipio Africanus; but supposed, chiefly from the resemblance of name, to be
Badajoz. (
V. Max. 3.7.1;
Plut. Reg. et Imp. Apophthegm. p. 196; Cellarius, vol. i. p. 67; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 392.)
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