VALE´NTIA
VALE´NTIA (
Οὐαλεντία,
Ptol. 2.6.62), a considerable town of the Edetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, situated on the river Turium, at a distance of 3 miles from its mouth, and on the road from Carthago Nova to Castulo. (
Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Vib. Seq. p. 18;
Itin. Ant. p. 400.) Ptolemy (
l.c.) erroneously attributes it to the Contestani.
It became at a later period a Roman colony (Plin.
l.c.), in which apparently the consul Junius Brutus settled the soldiers of Viriathus. (Liv.
Epit. lv.) Pompey destroyed it. (
Epist. Pomp. ap. Sallust, ed. Corte, p. 965; cf.
Plut. Pomp. 18.)
It must, however, have been restored soon afterwards, since Mela mentions it as being still an important place (2.6), and coins of it of a late period are preserved. (Cf. Florez,
Med. ii. p. 610, iii. p. 125; Mionnet, i. p. 55,
Suppl. i. p. 110; Sestini, p. 209; Eckhel, i p. 60.)
The town still bears the same name, but has few antiquities to show.
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