Ilergetes

• a people of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the north of the Iberus, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 21; Liv. 21, 23; 61; 22, 21; 26, 49 al.

ILERGE´TES(Ἰλέργητες, Ptol. 2.6.68; Liv. 21.23, 61, 22.22; Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Ἰλουργήτες, Plb. 3.35) or ILE´RGETAE (Ἰλεργέται, Strab. 3. p. 161: doubtless the Ἰλεργέται, of Hecataeus, ap. Steph. B. s. v.), a people of Hispania Tarraconensis, extending on the N. of the Iberus ( Ebro) from the river GALLICUS( Gallego) to both banks of the SICORTS( Segre), and as far E. as the RUBRICATUS( Llobregat); and having for neighbours the EDETANIand CELTIBERIon the S., the VASCONESon the W., on the N. and NE. the small peoples at the foot of the Pyrenees, as the JACCETANI, CASTELLANI, AUSETANI,and CERRETANIand on the SE. the COSETANIBesides ILERDAtheir chief cities were:--the colony of CELSA( Velilla, near Xelsa), OSCA( Huesca), famous in the story of Sertorius; and ATHANAGIAwhich Livy (Liv. 21.61) makes their capital, but which no other writer names. On the great road from Italy into the N. of Spain, reckoning from Tarraco, stood ILERDA62 M. P.; TOLOUS32 M. P., in the conventus of Caesaraugusta, and with the civitas Romana (Plin.); PERTUSA18 M. P. (Pertusa, on the Alcanadre); OSCA19 M. P., whence it was 46 M. P. to Caesaraugusta ( Itin. Ant. p. 391).

On a loop of the same road, starting from Caesaraugusta, were:--GALLICUM15 M. P., on the river Gallicus ( Zunra, on the Gallego); BORTINAE,18 M. P. (Βουρτίνα, Ptol.: Torinos); OSCA12 M. P.; CAUS,29 M.P.; MENDICULEIA19 M. P. (probably Monzon); ILERDA22 M. P. ( Itin. Ant. pp. 451, 452). On the road from Caesaraugusta, up the valley of the Gallicus, to Benearnum ( Orthes) in Gallia, were, FORUM GALLORUM30 M. P. ( Gurrea), and EBELLINUM22 M. P. ( Beilo), whence it was 24 M. P. to the summit of the pass over the Pyrenees ( Itin. Ant. p. 452). Besides these places, Ptolemy mentions BERGUSIAΒεργουσία : Balaguer), on the Sicoris; BERGIDUM(Βέργιδον); ERGA(Ἔργα); SUCCOSA(Σουκκῶσα); GALLICA FLAVIA(Γάλλικα Φλαουία : Fraga?); and ORGIA(Ὠρκία, prob. Orgagna), a name also found on coins (Sestini, Med. Isp. p. 99), while the same coins bear the name of AESONES,and inscriptions found near the Sicoris have AESONENSISand JESSONENSIS(Muratori, Nov. Thes. p. 1021, Nos. 2, 3; Spon, Misc. Erud. Ant. p. 188), with which the GESSORIENSESof Pliny may perhaps have some connection. BERSICALis mentioned on coins (Sestini, p. 107), and OCTOGESA(prob. La Granja, at the confluence of the Segreand the Ebro) by Caesar ( B.C. 1.61; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. pp. 450--453).

(Ἰλέργητες). A people in Hispania Tarraconensis, between the Iberus and the Pyrenees.