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LIBER III · CAPUT 2

OF BÆTICA

OF BÆTICA. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
OF BÆTICA · EDITORIAL PLATE III.2 · modern editorial plate
OF BÆTICA. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Baeticae longitude nunc a Castulonis oppidi fine Gadis CCL et a Murgi maritima ora XXV p. amplior, latitudo a Carteia Anam oraCCXXXIIII p. Agrippam quidem in tanta viri diligentia praeterque in hoc opere cura, cum orbem terrarum orbi spectandum propositurus esset, errasse quis credat et cum eo Divum Augustum? is namque conplexam eum porticum ex destinatione et commentariis M. Agrippae a sorore eius inchoatam peregit.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

At the present day the length of Bætica, from the town of Castulo, on its frontier, to Gades is 250 miles, and from Murci, which lies on the sea-coast, twenty-five miles more. The breadth, measured from the coast of Carteia, is 234 miles. Who is there that can entertain the belief that Agrippa, a man of such extraordinary diligence, and one who bestowed so much care on his subject, when he proposed to place before the eyes of the world a survey of that world, could be guilty of such a mistake as this, and that too when seconded by the late emperor the divine Augustus? For it was that emperor who completed the Portico which had been begun by his sister, and in which the survey was to be kept, in conformity with the plan and descriptions of M. Agrippa.