LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
Academy · Geography

Egeta

Ἔγηταορ Ἔτητα

Egeta, AEGETA (Ἔγηταορ Ἔτητα, Ptol. 3.9.4), a town on the Danube in Moesia, near the spot where Trajan built his bridge across the river. According to the Notitia Imp. (30), its garrison consisted of a division of the thirteenth legion and a squadron of cavalry. (Itin. Ant. 218; Geogr. Ray. 4.7.)

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.