SALMA´NTICA
SALMA´NTICA (
Σαλμάντικα,
Ptol. 2.5.9; in the Itin. Ant. called Salmatice; in Polyaenus
Strat. 8.48,
Σαλματίς), an important town of the Vettones in Lusitania, on the S. bank of the Durius, on the road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta.
It is incontestibly identical with the
Ἐλμαντική of Polybius (
3.14), and the Hermandica or Helmantica of Livy (
21.5; cf. Nonius,
Hisp. 100.38).
It is the celebrated modern town of
Salamanca, where the piers of a bridge of twenty-seven arches over the
Tormes, built by Trajan, are still in existence. (Cf. Miñano,
Diccion. vii. p. 402; Florez,
Esp. Sagr. xiv. p. 267.)
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