EMPO´RIAE
EMPO´RIAE (Liv.) or EMPO´RIUM (
Ἐμπόριαι, Ptol.;
Ἐμπορεῖον, Polyb., Strab,;
Ἐμπόριον, Ptol.:
Ampurias), an ancient and important city of Hispania
[p. 1.826]Tarraconensis, on the small gulf (
G. of Rosas) which lies below the E. extremity of the Pyrenees, and at the mouth of the river Clodianus (
Fluvia), which formed its port. Its situation made it the natural landing-place from Gaul; and as such it was colonised at an early period by the Phocaeans of Massalia. Their first city (afterwards called the Old Town) was built on a small island, whence they passed over to the mainland: and here a double city grew up,--the Greek town on the coast, and an Iberian settlement, of the tribe of the Indigetes, on the inland side of the other. Julius Caesar added a body of Roman colonists to the Greeks and Spaniards; and the place gradually coalesced into one Roman city. On coins it is styled a municipium. (
Liv. 21.60,
61,
26.19,
28.42,
34.9;
Plb. 3.76; Strab. iii. pp. 159, 160; Mela, 2.6;
Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4;
Ptol. 2.5.20;
Steph. B. sub voce Scylax, p. 1;
Scymn. Ch. 203;
Sil. Ital. 3.369,
15.176; Florez,
Med. de Esp. vol. ii. pp. 409, 645, vol. iii. p. 66; Mionnet, vol. i. pp. 40, 41,
Suppl. vol. i. p. 82; Sestini, p. 139; Num. Goth.; Eckhel, vol. i. p. 49; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 423.)
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