Maxilua
Μαξιλοῦα
Maxilua (Μαξιλοῦα, Ptol. 2.4.13), a town in Hispania Baetica, which, like Calentum, was celebrated for its manufacture of a sort of bricks light enough to swim on water. (Plin. Nat. 35.14. s. 49; comp. Strab. xiii. p.615; Vitr. 2.3; Schneider, ad Ecl. Phys. p. 88.) It was probably situated in the Sierra Morena. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. xii. p. 259.)
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.