emerita

Updated: May 28, 2025

The footsteps of the Barbarians, who, in the reign of Gallienus, had penetrated beyond the Pyrenees, were soon obliterated by the return of peace; and in the fourth century of the Christian æra, the cities of Emerita, or Merida, of Corduba, Seville, Bracara, and Tarragona, were numbered with the most illustrious of the Roman world.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3

The reader knows Lieutenant-General Schulenburg; stiff little military gentleman of grave years, nephew of the maypole EMERITA who is called Duchess of Kendal in England. "Had a horse shot under him at Malplaquet;" battlings and experiences enough, before and since. Has real sense, abundant real pedantry; a Prussian soldier every inch.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08

Yet, although it may have less to show than Merida, once Augusta Emerita and the capital of the province, this temple is the best-preserved in the whole peninsula. Before the Roman dominion came to an end, in the first quarter of the fifth century, Christianity had been for some time firmly established.

Walter Crum Watson - Portuguese Architecture