Castulo
Place
Civil War 1.38 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “On the arrival of L. Vibullius Rufus, who, as we have shown, was sent by Pompeius into Spain, Afranius and Petreius and Varro, legates of Pompeius, of whom one held hither Spain with three legions, another further Spain from the pass of Castulo to the Anas with two legions, a third the district of the Vettones from the Anas and also Lusitania with an equal …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 1.38
Caesar
On the arrival of L. Vibullius Rufus, who, as we have shown, was sent by Pompeius into Spain, Afranius and Petreius and Varro, legates of Pompeius, of whom one held hither Spain with three legions, another further Spain from the pass of Castulo to the Anas with two legions, a third the district of the Vettones from the Anas and also Lusitania with an equal number of legions, divide their tasks in such a way that Petreius should march from Lusitania through the Vettones with all his forces to join Afranius, while Varro should protect the whole of further Spain with the legions under his command. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
An Ibero-Roman settlement of Baetica that was inhabited beginning in the Neolithic period. It is noted for the silver mines of the Sierra Morena.
Pleiades 265855 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 27 B3 Castulo