Note 827 — Chapter I
E. J. (Edward James) Chinnock translation
Gadeira or Gades was a Phoenician colony. The name is from the Hebrew גָּדֵר, a fence. Cf. Pliny (iv. 36); appellant Poeni Gadir ita Punica lingua septum significante. Also Avienus (Ora Maritima, 268): Punicorum lingua conseptum locum Gaddir vocabat. According to Pliny (v. 1), Suetonius Paulinus was the first Roman general who crossed the Atlas Mountains.