Saetabis
Saetabis, SETABIS, or SAETABI (Σαίταβις, Strab. iii. p.160), a town of the Contestani in Hispania Tarraconensis. It was a Roman municilpium in the jurisdiction of Carthago (Murat. Inscr. ii. p. 1183. 6), and had the surname of Augustanorum. (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4.) It lay upon an eminence (Sil. Ital. 3.372) to the S. of the Sucro, and was famed for its flax and linen manufacture. (Plin. Nat. 19.2. s. 1; Catull. 12.14, &c.) Now Jativa. (Cf. Laborde, Itin. i. p. 266; Marca, Hisp. 2.6. p. 118.)
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.