Corduba (modern Cordoba), the Roman colony in Hispania Ulterior (Baetica) founded by M. Claudius Marcellus around 152 BC; capital of the province under the empire. Cicero mentions its school of poetry — heavy and provincial in his ear (Pro Archia 26) — and uses the city as the scene of L. Piso's anecdote about the gold ring (Verr. 2.4.56). Asinius Pollio governed there in 44-43 BC (Ad fam. 10.32).