Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), OSSO´NOBA

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OSSO´NOBA (Ὀσσόνοβα, Ptol. 2.5.3), a town of the Turdetani in Lusitania, between the rivers Tagus and Anas, on the road from Esuris to Ebora and Pax Julia. (Itin. Ant. pp. 418, 426.) [LUSITANIA p. 220a.] It is the same town mentioned by Strabo in a corrupt passage (iii. p. 143), by Mela (3.1.6), Pliny (4.21. s. 35), and others. Commonly identified with Estoy, lying a little N. of Faro, near the mouth of the Silves, where Roman ruins and inscriptions are still found. One of the latter has RESP. OSSON. (Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 387.)

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.

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William Smith, LLD, Ed.