SAETABIS
SAETABIS,
SETABIS, or SAETABI (
Σαίταβις, Strab. iii. p.160), a town of the Contestani in Hispania Tarraconensis.
It was a Roman municilpium in the jurisdiction of Carthago (Murat.
Inscr. ii. p. 1183. 6), and had the surname of Augustanorum. (
Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4.)
It lay upon an eminence (
Sil. Ital. 3.372) to the S. of the Sucro, and was famed for its flax and linen manufacture. (
Plin. Nat. 19.2. s. 1; Catull. 12.14, &c.) Now
Jativa. (Cf. Laborde,
Itin. i. p. 266; Marca,
Hisp. 2.6. p. 118.)
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