MIROBRIGA
MIROBRIGA (
Μιρόβριγα).
1.
Also called
MEROBRICA (
Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 35; Coins), a town of the Celtici in Lusitania, upon the Ocean (
Ptol. 2.5.6), identified by some with
Odemira, by others with
Sines. (Mentelle,
Esp. Anc. p. 260; Ukert, 2.1. p. 390.)
2.
A Roman municipium, in the territory of the Turduli, in Hispania Baetica, on the road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta, now
Capilla, N. of
Fuente Ovejuna. (
Ptol. 2.4.13;
Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3;
It. Anton. p. 444; Inscr. Gruter, pp. 76, 257.)
3.
A town of the Oretani, in Hispania Tarraconensis, mentioned only by Ptolemy (
2.6.59).