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COCA (Town) CASTILLE-LEON
Cauca (Coca) Segovia, Spain.
A site in Tarraconensis 59 km from Segovia on the way to Valladolid. According to Pliny, it was a city of the Vaccaei (HN 3.3.26); it is also cited in Ptolemy (2.6.50) and Appian (Iber. 51.89). It was the birthplace of Theodosius I (Zosimus 4.24). There have been no excavations, and the only finds from the Roman period are two inscriptions (CIL II, 2727-28), the first of them on an Iberian stone pig. However, the antiquity of the settlement is confirmed by the finding of a bronze jug of the Hispano-Punic type, abundant in the S of the peninsula and related to the culture of Tartessos.
SEGOVIA (Town) CASTILLE-LEON
Segovia. Celtic oppidum, belonging to the Arevaci according to Pliny (3.27) and
Ptolemy, although according to Livy (91) it was in the territory of the Vaccaei.
It lies at the confluence of the Eresma and Clamores, and was a stage on the Roman
road from Miacum to Salmantica. There are few references to it, but during the
Lusitanian wars the town preferred to sacrifice the hostages delivered to Viriatus
rather than break the pact concluded with Rome in 151 B.C. (Frontin. 4.5.22).
A battle was fought there in 75 B.C. by Metellus against the defeated Hirtuleius,
Sertorius' deputy.
The aqueduct, mentioned in inscriptions as early as the 1st c. A.D.,
carried water from the Acebeda for some 16 km and delivered it to the Castellum
of Caseron (CIL II, 2746, 2751). The arches, 728 m long and of granite ashlar,
cross the valley at an angle; the two tiers are 30 m high and 5.72 m thick. Outside
the town are two Roman bridges, called Castellano and Lavadores.
M. Pellicer Catalan, 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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