Gades

(ium), Gadis (is), and Gadīra , a small island in the Atlantic, on the Spanish coast, 25 miles from the columns of Hercules. It was some time called Tarte us and Erythia , according to Pliny, and is now known by the name of Cadiz . Geryon, whom Hercules killed, fixed his residence there. Hercules, surnamed Gad it an us , had there a celebrated temple, in which all his labours were engraved with excellent workmanship. The inhabitants were called Gaditani , and their women were known for their agility of body, and their incontinency. Horace , bk. 2 , ode 2, li. 11 .— Statius , bk. 3 , Sylvæ , poem 1, li. 183 .— Livy , bk. 21 , ch. 21 ; bk. 24 , ch. 49 ; bk. 26 , ch. 43 .— Pliny , bk. 4 , ch. 23 .— Strabo , bk. 3 .— Cicero , for Cornel i us Balbus .— Justin , bk. 44 , ch. 4 .— Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 35 .— Ptolemy , bk. 2 , ch. 4 .— Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 2 .