ASI´DO
ASI´DO (prob.
Xeres de la Frontera), an inland city of Hispania Baetica, belonging to the conventus of Hispalis.
It was a colony, with the epithet Caesariana, and appears to be the
Ἄσινδον of Ptolemy (
2.4.13.) Numerous coins, and other Roman antiquities, have been found at
Xerez, its supposed site. Some, however, take
Xerez for the ancient
ASTA and
Medina Sidonia for Asido. (
Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3; Florez,
Esp. S. 10.15,
Med. de Esp. i. p. 164, iii. p. 13; Ukert, 2.1. pp. 356, 357.)
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