ILERGE´TES
Eth.
ILERGE´TES (
Ἰλέργητες,
Ptol. 2.6.68;
Liv. 21.23,
61,
22.22;
Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4;
Ἰλουργήτες,
Plb. 3.35) or Eth.
ILE´RGETAE (Eth.
Ἰλεργέται, Strab. iii. p.161: doubtless the
Ἰλεργέται, of Hecataeus, ap.
Steph. B. sub voce a people of Hispania Tarraconensis, extending on the N. of the Iberus (
Ebro) from the river GALLICUS (
Gallego) to both banks of the SICORTS (
Segre), and as far E. as the
RUBRICATUS (
Llobregat); and having for neighbours the
[p. 2.32]EDETANI and CELTIBERI on the S., the
VASCONES on the W., on the N. and NE. the small peoples at the foot of the Pyrenees, as the JACCETANI, CASTELLANI, AUSETANI, and
CERRETANI and on the SE. the
COSETANI Besides
ILERDA their chief cities were:--the colony of
CELSA (
Velilla, near
Xelsa),
OSCA (
Huesca), famous in the story of Sertorius; and
ATHANAGIA which Livy (
21.61) makes their capital, but which no other writer names. On the great road from Italy into the N. of Spain, reckoning from Tarraco, stood
ILERDA 62 M. P.;
TOLOUS 32 M. P., in the conventus of Caesaraugusta, and with the civitas Romana (Plin.);
PERTUSA 18 M. P. (
Pertusa, on the
Alcanadre);
OSCA 19 M. P., whence it was 46 M. P. to Caesaraugusta (
Itin. Ant. p. 391).
On a loop of the same road, starting from Caesaraugusta, were:--
GALLICUM 15 M. P., on the river Gallicus (
Zunra, on the
Gallego); BORTINAE, 18 M. P. (
Βουρτίνα, Ptol.:
Torinos);
OSCA 12 M. P.; CAUS, 29 M.P.;
MENDICULEIA 19 M. P. (probably
Monzon);
ILERDA 22 M. P. (
Itin. Ant. pp. 451, 452). On the road from Caesaraugusta, up the valley of the Gallicus, to Benearnum (
Orthes) in Gallia, were,
FORUM GALLORUM 30 M. P. (
Gurrea), and
EBELLINUM 22 M. P. (
Beilo), whence it was 24 M. P. to the summit of the pass over the Pyrenees (
Itin. Ant. p. 452). Besides these places, Ptolemy mentions BERGUSIA
Βεργουσία:
Balaguer), on the Sicoris;
BERGIDUM (
Βέργιδον);
ERGA (
Ἔργα);
SUCCOSA (
Σουκκῶσα);
GALLICA FLAVIA (
Γάλλικα Φλαουία:
Fraga?); and
ORGIA (
Ὠρκία, prob.
Orgagna), a name also found on coins (Sestini,
Med. Isp. p. 99), while the same coins bear the name of AESONES, and inscriptions found near the Sicoris have AESONENSIS and JESSONENSIS (Muratori,
Nov. Thes. p. 1021, Nos. 2, 3; Spon,
Misc. Erud. Ant. p. 188), with which the
GESSORIENSES of Pliny may perhaps have some connection. BERSICAL is mentioned on coins (Sestini, p. 107), and
OCTOGESA (prob.
La Granja, at the confluence of the
Segre and the
Ebro) by Caesar (
B.C. 1.61; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. pp. 450--453).
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