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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 Durius, and not far from the Atlantic; a municipium (Coin). Now thought to be Barcelor, a town of Entre Minho 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 Quercutanus or Quercutulanus, from the oaks growing on it; and Augulius, by Tiberius (Tacitus, Suetonius). To the east it had the city walls, on the south the Coeliolus, to the west the Palatine, and on the north the Esquiline.