PAX JULIA
PAX JULIA (
Πὰζ Ἰουλία,
Ptol. 2.5.5; called in the Geogr. Rav., 4.43, Pacca Julia), a town of the Turdetani, in the S. of Lusitania, and on the road from Esuris to Ebora (
Itin. Ant. pp. 426, 427).
But on the subject of this route see LUSITANIA, Vol. II. p. 220.
It was a Roman colony, and the seat of a Conventus juridicus (
Plin. Nat. 4.35); probably the same town as that called Pax Augusta by Strabo (
iii. p.151),--as many towns bore double names in this manner,--notwithstanding that it is placed by him among the Celtici. (Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 388, and the authorities there cited.)
It lay on a hill N. of Julia Myrtilis, and is commonly identified with
Beja. [
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