Oleastrum
Ὀλέαστρον
Oleastrum (Ὀλέαστρον, Ptol. 2.4.14).
1.
A town in Hispania Baetica, in the jurisdiction of Gades, with a grove of the same name near it. (Mela, 3.1.4; Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3.)
2.
A town of the Cosetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Dertosa to Tarraco (Itin. Ant. 399). Probably the same town mentioned by Strabo (iii. p.159), but erroneously placed by him near Saguntum. It seems also to have given name to the lead mentioned by Pliny (34.17. s. 49). Variously identified with Balaguer, Miramar, and S. Lucar de Barrameda (Marca, Hisp. 2.11. p. 142.) [T.H.D]
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.