# Naturalis Historia 3.9

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 3. Latin.

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9] Baetis, in Tarraconensis provinciae non, ut aliqui dixere, Mentesa oppido, sed Tugiensi exoriens saltu — iuxta quem Tader fluvius, qui Carthaginiensem agrum rigat — Ilorci refugit Scipionis rogum versusque in occasum oceanum Atlanticum, provinciam adoptans, petit, modicus primo, sed multorum fluminum capax, quibus ipse famam aquasque aufert. Baeticae primum ab Ossigitania infusus, amoeno blandus alveo, crebris dextra laevaque accolitur oppidis.

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