Pons Augusti

PONS AUGUSTI(Tab. Peut.), a town in Dacia, on the road from Tiviscum to Sarmategte (usually called Zarmizegethusa), identified by Mannert with the Zeugma (Ζεῦγμα, Ptol. 3.8.10) of Ptolemy, and placed near Bonizarat the passage over the river Bistra; by others near Margg. (Ukert, vol. iii. pt. 2. p. 616.)