SUCRON
SUCRON (
Σουκρων,
Strab. iii. p.158), a town of the Edetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the river of the same name, midway between Carthago Nova and the river Iberus. (
Itin. Ant. p. 400; cf. Cic.
Balb. s;
Liv. 28.24,
29.19;
App. BC 1.110;
Plut. Sert. 19, &c.)
It was already destroyed in the time of Pliny (
3.3. s. 4). Variously placed at
Alcira, Sueca, and
Cullera. (Cf. Florez,
Esp. Sagr. v. p. 35; Marca,
Hisp. 2.5.)
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