Salmantica
Σαλμάντικα
Salmantica (Σαλμάντικα, Ptol. 2.5.9; in the Itin. Ant. called Salmatice; in Polyaenus Strat. 8.48, Σαλματίς), an important town of the Vettones in Lusitania, on the S. bank of the Durius, on the road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta. It is incontestibly identical with the Ἐλμαντική of Polybius (3.14), and the Hermandica or Helmantica of Livy (21.5; cf. Nonius, Hisp. 100.38). It is the celebrated modern town of Salamanca, where the piers of a bridge of twenty-seven arches over the Tormes, built by Trajan, are still in existence. (Cf. Miñano, Diccion. vii. p. 402; Florez, Esp. Sagr. xiv. p. 267.)
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.