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COELIOBRIGA

Volume 5 · 119 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a town of the Bracari in the Hither Spain, to the south of Bracara Augusta, the north of the Durius, and not far from the Atlantic; a municipium (Coin). Now thought to be Barelos, a town of Entre Miño y Duero. W. Long. 9° 15'. Lat. 41° 20'.

COELIUS MONS, one of the seven hills of Rome; so called from Coelus, a Tuscan captain, who came to the assistance of Romulus against the Sabines, (Dionysius Halicarnassus). Called also Querculanae, or Querculanus, from the oaks growing on it; and Augustus, by Tiberius (Tacitus, Suetonius). To the east it had the city walls, on the south the Coelius, to the west the Palatine, and on the north the Esquiline.