AQUÆ Calidæ, (Ptolemy); Aquæ Caldenfis, (Pliny); formerly in great repute, and a public bath; whose ruins still remain, testimonies of the Roman grandeur. Now Orense, in Galicia, still famous for its baths; on the river Minho, 54 miles south-east of Compostella. W. Long. 8. 30. N. Lat. 42. 30. Also a place in the bay of Carthage, (Strabo). Other Aquæ Caldenfis, to the north of Gerunda in Catalonia, (Ptolemy).
AQUÆ Calidæ
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