Emporiae

EMPO´RIAE(Liv.) or EMPO´RIUM (Ἐμπόριαι, Ptol.; Ἐμπορεῖον, Polyb., Strab,; Ἐμπόριον, Ptol.: Ampurias), an ancient and important city of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the small gulf ( G. of Rosas) which lies below the E. extremity of the Pyrenees, and at the mouth of the river Clodianus ( Fluvia), which formed its port. Its situation made it the natural landing-place from Gaul; and as such it was colonised at an early period by the Phocaeans of Massalia. Their first city (afterwards called the Old Town) was built on a small island, whence they passed over to the mainland: and here a double city grew up,—the Greek town on the coast, and an Iberian settlement, of the tribe of the Indigetes, on the inland side of the other. Julius Caesar added a body of Roman colonists to the Greeks and Spaniards; and the place gradually coalesced into one Roman city. On coins it is styled a municipium. (Liv. 21.60, 61, 26.19, 28.42, 34.9; Plb. 3.76; Strab. iii. pp. 159, 160; Mela, 2.6; Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Ptol. 2.5.20; Steph. B. s. v.;Scylax, p. 1; Scymn. Ch. 203; Sil. Ital., 15.176; Florez, Med. de Esp. vol. ii. pp. 409, 645, vol. 3. p. 66; Mionnet, vol. i. pp. 40, 41, Suppl. vol. 1. p. 82; Sestini, p. 139; Num. Goth.; Eckhel, vol. 1. p. 49; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 423.) COIN OF EMPORIAE.
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