Book 3
4.7
The first city between the windings of the Ebro and the extremities of the Pyrenees, near to where the Trophies of Pompey are erected, is Tarraco;Tarragona. it has no harbour, but is situated on a bay, and possessed of many other advantages. At the present day it is as well peopled as Carthage;New Carthage, or Carthagena, is intended. for it is admirably suited for the stay of the prefects,Sent from Rome. and is as it were the metropolis, not only of [the country lying] on this side the Ebro, but also of a great part of what lies beyond. The near vicinity of the Gymnesian Islands,Majorca and Minorca. and Ebusus,Iviça. which are all of considerable importance, are sufficient to inform one of the felicitous position of the city. Eratosthenes tells us that it has a road-stead, but Artemidorus contradicts this, and affirms that it scarcely possesses an anchorage.
