CALENTUM
CALENTUM (prob.
Cazalla near
Alaniz), a town of Hispania Baetica, famous for its manutacture of a sort of tiles light enough to swim on water (
Plin. Nat. 35.14. s. 49;
Vitr. 2.3; comp.
Strab. xiii. p.615; Schneider,
ad Eclog. Phys. p. 88; Caro,
Antig. 3.70).
It is supposed to be the city of the Callenses Emanici, mentioned by Pliny (
3.1. s. 3).
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