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ESPEJO (Town) ANDALUCIA
Ucubi or Ucubis (Espejo) Cordoba, Spain.
To the SE of Cordoba, W of Castro del Rio. A colony exempt from the jurisdiction
of the Conventus Iuridicus Astigitanus, known as Claritas Julia according to Pliny
(NH 3.12), and mentioned by Sallust (1.123) in a passage that must refer to the
entry of Sertorius into Baetica after having defeated Metelus in Lusitania in
79-78 B.C. The cache of 700 Roman denarii found near Ucubi must have been hidden
on that occasion. Bellum Hispaniense contains several references to Ucubi during
the struggle between Caesar and the sons of Pompey in 45-44 B.C. Pompey camped
between Ategua and Ucubi when besieged by Caesar; the latter finally occupied
the site, but not until Pompey had ordered the execution of all those he suspected
of being Caesar's partisans (Bell.Hisp. 20.1; 24.2).
Remains apparently from that period include the amphitheater N of
the town, partly hewn out of a hillside. Only the walls of the substructure remain,
but the diameter of the arena must have been ca. 35 m. There is a Roman bridge
nearby. Inscriptions and the remains of houses and fortifications have been found
in Ategua vetus and Ucubi, and ceramic fragments in Ategua which date from the
1st c. B.C. and even earlier. The town is reputed to have been the birthplace
of Annius Verus, grandfather of Marcus Aurelius, and this accounts for the alleged
Cordovan origin of the emperor.
C. Fernandez-Chicarro, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Jan 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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