CASTRA CAECI´LIA
CASTRA CAECI´LIA (
Caceres), a town of Lusitania, in Spain, on the high road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta, 46 M. P. from the former, and 20 M. P. from Turmuli (
Alconeta) on the Tagus. (
Itin. Ant. p. 433.)
It belonged to the conventus of Emerita, and formed one community with Norba Caesarea (
Plin. Nat. 4.22. s. 35,
contribute in Norbam). It is generally supposed to be identical with the Caecilia Gemellinum of Ptolemy (
2.5.8,
Καικιλία Γεμέλλινον ἢ Μετέλλινα: Bivar.
ad Dextri Chron. p. 179, ap. Wesseling.
ad Itin. l.c.).
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