SAXETANUM
SAXETANUM a place in Hispania Baetica (
Itin. Ant. p. 405), called Sex (
Σέξ) by Ptolemy (
2.4.7), Hexi by Mela (2.6), and by Pliny (
3.3) Sexti Firmum Julium.
It is the
Ἑξιτανῶν πόλις of Strabo (
iii. p.156). On the name see Casaubon (
ad Strab. i. p. 50), and Tzschuck (
ad Melam, vol. ii. pt. 2. p. 447).
It was renowned for its salt-fish. (Strab, iii. p. 156;
Athen. 3.121;
Plin. Nat. 32.11. s. 53;
Mart. 7.78, &c.) Now most probably
Motril. (Cf. Florez,
Esp. Sagr. xii. p. 101.)
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