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LIBISO´SONA

LIBISO´SONA (cognomine Foroaugustana, Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Inser. ap. Gruter, p. 260. no. 3; Libisona, Coins, ap. Sestini, p. 168; Libisosia, Itin. Ant. p. 446; Λιβισῶκα, Ptol. 2.6.59; Lebinosa, Geog. Rav. 4.44: Lezuza), a city of the Oretani, in Hispania Tarraconensis, 14 M. P. NE. of the sources of the Anas, on the high-road from Laminium to Caesaraugusta. It was an important place of trade, and, under the Romans, a colony, belonging to the conventus of Caesaraugusta (Plin. l.c.; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. pp. 411, 412).

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