CAEPIO´NIS TURRIS
CAEPIO´NIS TURRIS or
MONUMIENTUM (
Καιπ́.ωνος πίργος:
Cipiona), a great lighthouse, built on a rock surrounded by the sea, on the S. side of the river Baetis (
Guadalquivir) in Hispania Bactica (
Strab. iii. p.140; Mela, 3.1, where some read
Geryonis, and identify the tower with the
Gerontis or
Geryonís arx of Avienus,
Ora Marit. 263, see Wernsdorf,
ad loc.) Most commentators derive the namei from Servilius Caepio, the conqueror of Lusitania; but others, ascribing to the lighthouse a Phoenician origin, regard the name as a corruption of
Cap Eon, i. e.
Rock of the Sun. (Ford,
Handbook of Spain, p. 20.)
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