Scalabis
Scalabis a town of Lusitania, on the road from Olisipo to Emerita and Bracara. (Itin. Ant. pp. 420, 421.) Pliny (4.21. s. 35) calls it a Roman colony, with the surname Praesidium Julium, and the seat of one of the three conventus juridici
of Lusitania. It is undoubtedly the same place which Ptolemy (2.5.7) erroneously calls Σκαλαβίσκος, which is probably a corruption of Σκαλαβίς κολ. (κολωνία) The modern Santarem. (Cf. Wesseling, ad Itin. l.c.; Isidor. de Vir. Ill. 100.44; Florez, Esp. Sagr. xiii. p. 69.)
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.