Mentesa
Mentesa
1.
Surnamed BASTIA (It. Anton. p. 402; Mentissa, Liv. 26.17; Μέντισα, Ptol. 2.6.59), a town of the Oretani in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Carthago Nova to Castulo, and 22 Roman miles from Castulo. Pliny (3.3. s. 4) calls the inhabitants Mentesani, qui et Oretani,
to distinguish them from the following.
2.
A small state of the Bastuli, in Hispania n Baetica.
( Mentesani, qui et Bastuli,
Plin. l.c.; Inscr. Gruter, p. 884, 2; Florez, Esp. Sagr. v. p. 24.)
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.