Mentesa

Mentēsa, æ, f. , ville de la Tarraconnaise [auj. peut-être La Guardia de Jaén, en Andalousie] : Plin. 3, 9 || -ānus, a, um, de Mentésa, et au pl., les habitants de Mentésa : Plin. 3, 19.

➳ Mentissa Liv. 26, 17, 4.

MENTESA

ME´NTESA

1.

Surnamed BASTIA( It. Anton. p. 402; Mentissa, Liv. 26.17; Μέντισα, Ptol. 2.6.59), a town of the Oretani in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Carthago Nova to Castulo, and 22 Roman miles from Castulo. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4) calls the inhabitants Mentesani, qui et Oretani,to distinguish them from the following.

2.

A small state of the Bastuli, in Hispania n Baetica.( Mentesani, qui et Bastuli,Plin. l. c.;Inscr. Gruter, p. 884, 2; Florez, Esp. Sagr. 5. p. 24.)

Mentĕsa

(1) Called Bastia, a town of the Oretani in Hispania Tarraconensis.

(2) A small town of the Bastuli in the south of Hispania Baetica.