Lacobriga
Lacobrĭga, ae, f.,
- a town of Lusitania, Mel. 1, 3, 6.
- —Hence, Lacobrĭgenses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Lacobriga, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 26.
Lăcobrīga, æ, f. , ville de Lusitanie : Mela 3, 7 [Laccobriga d. le t. de Frick]|| ville de la Tarraconnaise : Anton. || -īgēnsēs, ĭum, habitants de Lacobriga [en Tarraconnaise] : Plin. 3, 26.
LACOBRIGA
LACOBRI´GA[1. LUSITANIA; 2. VACCAEI.]
Lacobrĭga
(1) A town of Spain, near the Sacrum Promontorium, now Lagoa (Mela, iii. 1).
(2) A town of Spain, among the Vaccaei, now Lobera (Pliny , Pliny H. N. iii. 4).
LACOBRIGA (Lagos) Algarve, Portugal.
Mentioned by Mela (3.1) and by Ptolemy (2.5), it was situated at the foot and on the top of Monte Molião on the outskirts of the present city. Only trial excavations have been made; the finds are in the museum of Lagos.
BIBLIOGRAPHYA. Viana et al., “Alguns objectos inéditos do Museu Regional de Lagos,” Revista de Guimarães 62 (1952) 133-42; id., “De lo prerromano a lo arabe en el Museo Regional de Lagos,” Archivo Español de Arqueologia (1953) 113-38.
J. ALARCÃO