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COELIOBRIGA

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in Ancient Geography, a town of the Bracari in the Hither Spain, to the south of Bracara Augusta, the north of the Durias, and not far from the Atlantic; a municipium (Coin). Now thought to be Barcelos, a town of Entre Minho y Duero. W. Long. 9. 15. Lut. 41. 20.

COELIUS MUNIS, one of the seven hills of Rome, so called from Coelus, a Trojan captain, who came to the assistance of Romulus against the Sabines, (Dionysius Halicarnassus). Called also Querculatus, or Querculanus, from the oaks growing on it; and Augurius, 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 Esquiliae.