Rhoda
Ῥόδη
Rhoda or RHODUS (Ῥόδη, Steph. B. sub voce Rhoda, Mela, 2.6; Liv. 34.8; Ῥόδος, Strab. xiv. p.654; Eustath. ad Dion. Per. 504; called by Ptol. 2.6.20, Ῥοδίπολις, where we should probably read Ῥόδη πόλις), a Greek emporium on the coast of the Indigetae in Hispania Tarraconensis, founded according to Strabo (l.c.) by the Rhodians, and subsequently taken possession of by the Massiliots. It is the modern Rosas; but tradition says that the old town lay towards the headland at San Pedro de Roda. (Ford, Handbook of Spain, p. 249; comp. Meurs. Rhod. 1.28; Marca, Hisp. 2.18; Martin, Hist. des Gaules, p. 218; Florez, Med. iii. p. 114; Mionnet, i. p. 148.)
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.