. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . es exhibited by the great general, in acontest where the formation of the district and thevery elements of nature seemed in league with hisenemies, have been compared to those displayed bythe great Duke before Badajoz ; but no epitome cando justice to the campaign. It ended by the capitu-lation of Afranius and Petreius, who were conqueredas much by Caesars generosity as by his strateev.(Caes. B. C. i. 38, et seq.; Flor. iv. 12; Appian,B. C. ii. 42 ; Veil. Pat. ii. 42 ; Suet. Caes. 34 ;Lucan, Pharsal. iv. 11, 144.) Under the empire,Ilerda was a very f
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . es exhibited by the great general, in acontest where the formation of the district and thevery elements of nature seemed in league with hisenemies, have been compared to those displayed bythe great Duke before Badajoz ; but no epitome cando justice to the campaign. It ended by the capitu-lation of Afranius and Petreius, who were conqueredas much by Caesars generosity as by his strateev.(Caes. B. C. i. 38, et seq.; Flor. iv. 12; Appian,B. C. ii. 42 ; Veil. Pat. ii. 42 ; Suet. Caes. 34 ;Lucan, Pharsal. iv. 11, 144.) Under the empire,Ilerda was a very flourishing city, and a muni-cipium. It had a fine stone bridge over the Sicoris,on the foundations of which the existing bridgeis built. In the time of Ausonius the city hadfallen into decay; but it rose again into importancein the middle ages. (Strab. iii. p. 161 ; i. 20. 13; coins, ap. Florez, Med. ii. ,646, iii. p. 73; Mionnet, vol. i. p. 44, Suppl. vol. 89 ; Sestini, pp. 161, 166 ; Eckhel, vol. i. ) [P. S.]. COIN OF ILERDA. CWipynrts, Ptol. ii. 6. § 68; 23, 61, xxii. 22; Plin. iii. 3. s. 4; IAoup/rJTey,Polyb. iii. 35) or ILERGETAE ClAepytTat, p. 161: doubtless the lAapavydrai of Hecataeus,ap. Steph. B. s. v.), a people of Hispania Tarraco-nensis, extending on the N. of the Iberus (Ebro)from the river Gallicus (Gallego) to both banks ofthe Sicoris (Segre), and as far E. as the Robri-Catis (Llobregat); and having for neighbours the 32 ilici. Edktani anil on the S., the Vasconeson tin; W., on the N. and NE. the small peoples atthe foot of the Pyrenees, us the Jaccetani, Cas-tellani, Ausetani, and Cerrktani, and on theSE. the Cosetani. Besides Ilerda, their chiefcities were:—the colony of Celsa (Velilla, nearXelsa), Osca (Iluesca), famous in the story of Ser-tuiius; and AtHANAGIA, which Livy (xxi. 61)makes their capital, but which no other writer the great road from Italy into the N. of .Spain,re
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