ITALICA (anc. geog.), a town of Baetica in Spain, built by Scipio Africanus, after finishing the Spanish war, for the reception of the wounded soldiers. At first it was a municipium; afterwards a colony: which was a matter of wonder to the emperor Adrian, the privileges of a municipium being beyond those of a colony (Gellius). Famous for being the birth-place of the emperors Trajan and Adrian, and of the poet Silius Italicus. Now Sevilla Vieja, scarce four miles from Seville; a small village of Andalusia on the Guadalquivir.—Corfinium in Italy was thus also called.