Subur

Sŭbur, f.,

• a town in Spain, on the river Rubricatus, perh. the mod. Villa Nuova, in Castile, Mel. 2, 6; Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 21.
• —Hence, Sŭbūrĭtāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Subur, Inscr. Grut. 414, 3.

Sŭbur, f. , ville de la Tarraconnaise : Plin. 3, 21.

SUBUR

SUBUR (Σούβουρ, Ptol. 2.6.17), a town of the Laeëtani in Hispania Tarraconensis lying E. of Tarraco. (Mela, 2.6.) Ptolemy (l. c.) ascribes it to the Cosetani, and Pliny (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4) to the Ilergetes. It is mentioned in an inseription. (Grnter, p. 414.) Variously identified with Sitges and Villanueva.

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SUBUR

SUBUR (Σούβουρ, Ptol. 4.1.13).

1.

A town in the interior of Mauretania Tingitana, near the river of the same name.

2.

(Ptol. 4.1.2), a river of Mauretania Tingitana. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.1. s. 1) calls it a fine navigable river. It fell into the Atlantic near Colonia Banasa, 50 miles S. of Lixus. It is still called Subu or Cubu, and rises among the forests of Mount Salelo in the province of Sciaus (Graberg of Hemsö, Das Kaiserreich Marokko, tr. by Reumont, p. 12). [T.H.D]