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Badia

Βαθεῖα

Badia or BATHEIA (Βαθεῖα, Plut.), a town of Spain, only mentioned as the scene of an incident related of the elder Scipio Africanus; but supposed, chiefly from the resemblance of name, to be Badajoz. (V. Max. 3.7.1; Plut. Reg. et Imp. Apophthegm. p. 196; Cellarius, vol. i. p. 67; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 392.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.