BAE´TULO
BAE´TULO or
BAETULLO, a small river of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the E. coast, between the Iberus and the Pyrenees, with a small town of the same name, on the sea-shore near its mouth, an
oppidum civium Romanorum. (Mela, 2.6.3;
Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4.)
The river is the
Besos, and the town
Badelona, a little E. of
Barcelona. (Muratori, p. 1033. a. 3; Florez,
Esp. S. 24.56, 29.31; Marca Hisp. 2.15, p. 159; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. pp. 292, 421.)
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