Maxilua

MAXILU´A(Μαξιλοῦα, Ptol. 2.4.13), a town in Hispania Baetica, which, like Calentum, was celebrated for its manufacture of a sort of bricks light enough to swim on water. (Plin. Nat. 35.14. s. 49; comp. Strab. 13. p. 615;Vitr. 2.3; Schneider, ad Ecl. Phys. p. 88.) It was probably situated in the Sierra Morena. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. 12. p. 259.)

A town of Hispania Baetica, where bricks were said to be made of such lightness as to swim in water (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 14).