Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 19 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe

Hispalis, the capital of Hispania Bætica, of which Seville is the representative, is mentioned by Strabo, Pomponius Mela, Pliny, and Ptolemy, as being ancient even in their time. It is supposed to have been founded by the Phenicians, - according to the popular tradition, by Hercules. By the Romans it was invested with the privileges of a colony, under the name of Julia in honour of Julius Caesar, who is regarded as its second founder, and it is said to have borne also the appellation of Romula or little Rome. Over the gate called the Came (because it leads to the shambles) is the following inscription:

Condidit Alcides, renovavit Julius urbem,
Restituit Christo Fernandus Tertius, heros.

Arias Montano derives the name Hispftlis or Ispalis from e Phenician word, Spain, signifying a plain. This name the Goths are said to have changed into Hlspaiia, of which the Arabians, not pronouncing the p, made Isbilla, which again the Castilians, with whom the 6 and the t' are convertible, converted into Sevilla, its present name.

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