Mahón

Description

Mago (now Mahón or Maó) on the island of Menorca was established as an ancient commercial center because of its high-quality harborage. Its ancient name is thought to derive from Mago, brother of Hannibal, who occupied the Insula Minor after he fled from Gades in 206 BCE.

Evidence

• Liv. (OCT: PHI) 28.37

  Titus Livius. Titi Livi Ab Urbe Condita. 5 vols. Clarendon: Oxford U.P, 1908. https://latin.packhum.org/loc/914/1/0#0.

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• CIL II, 3708-3710; 3712

  Corpus inscriptionum latinarum. Berolini: Apud G. Reimerum, 1862.
• Mela (Ranstrand: PHI) 2.124.5

  Mela, Pomponius. De chorographia libri tres. Edited by Gunnar Ranstrand. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 28. Göteborg; Stockholm: Published by the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Göteborg] ; Almqvist & Wiksell [distributor], 1971. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/929/1/0.

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• Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.78.1

  Plinius Secundus Maior, C. Naturalis Historiae. Edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Lipsiae: Teubner, 1906. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/0.

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See Further

• BAtlas 27 inset Mago

  Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.

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• TIR Tarraco 100

  Cepas, Adela, Joseph Guitart i Duran, and Guillermo Fatás Cabeza. Tabula Imperii Romani: K/J-31 Pyrénées Orientales/Baleares: Tarraco - Baliares. Tabula Imperii Romani, K/J-31. Pyreneés Orientales-Baleares. Madrid: Ministerio de Fomento: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura CSIC : Institut D’Estudis Catalans, 1997. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40415507.

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• New Pauly Mago [13] City on the Insula Minor (L.-M. Günther)

  Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Manfred Landfester, Christine F. Salazar, and Francis G. Gentry, eds. Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Brill, 2015. https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/npoe.

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• Wikipedia (English) Mahón

  Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org.

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• Ptol. 2.6.73

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