in Ancient Geography, a town of the Celtici, in the north of Lusitania, (Antonine Inscription), called also Aruct Novum, to distinguish it from the following: Now supposed to be Moura, a small city of Portugal, near the confluence of the Ardila and Guadalquivir.
ARUCI Vetus, in Ancient Geography, a small city of the Turdetani, in Baetica, (Ptolemy); now Aroche, a hamlet of Andalusia, on the confines of Portugal and Estremadura, on the river Gama, seven leagues to the east of Aruci Novum or Moura. From it a mountain, in its neighbourhood, takes the name Arucitanus. Now la Sierra de Aroche.