ME´NTESA
ME´NTESA
1.
Surnamed
BASTIA (
It. Anton. p. 402; Mentissa,
Liv. 26.17;
Μέντισα, Ptol. 2.6.59), a town of the Oretani in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Carthago Nova to Castulo, and 22 Roman miles from Castulo. Pliny (
3.3. s. 4) calls the inhabitants “Mentesani, qui et Oretani,” to distinguish them from the following.
2.
A small state of the Bastuli, in “Hispania n Baetica.” ( “Mentesani, qui et Bastuli,” Plin.
l.c.; Inscr. Gruter, p. 884, 2; Florez,
Esp. Sagr. v. p. 24.)