Ordovices
Ὀρδούῒκες
Eth. Ordovices (Ὀρδούῒκες, Ptol. 2.3.18), a people on the W. coast of Britannia Romana, opposite to the island of Mona. They occupied the NW. portion of Wales, or that lying between Cardigan Bay and the river Dee, viz., Montgomeryshire, Merionethshire, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, and Flintshire. (Camden, p. 777; Tac. Ann. 12.33, Agric. 18.)
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.