Chap. 5.] ACCO^^'T of COrNTRIES, ETC. 395 



pita, Melizita, ]\ratera, Salaphita, Tusdrita\ Tiphica, Tunica', 

 Theuda, Tagasta^ Tiga\ Ulusubrita, a second Vaga, Visa, and 

 Zanla^ Of the remaining number, most of them aliould be 

 called, in strictness, not only cities, but nations even ; such 

 for instance as the Natabudes, the Capsitani^, the ilusu- 

 lami, the Sabarbares, the Massyli^, the Nisives, the Vama- 

 cures, the Cinithi, the Musuni, the jMarchubii'^ and tlie whole 

 of GrcTtulia^ as far as the river Nigris^", which separates 

 Africa proper from Ethiopia. 



CHAP. 5. (5.) — CTEENATCA. 



The region of CjTcnaica, also called Pentapolis", is ren- 

 dered famous by the oracle of Hammon'-, which is distant 

 400 miles from the city of Cyrene ; also by the Fountain of 



1 Now called El-Jcmma, according to Marcus. 



2 From it modem Tunis takes its name. 



3 The bii-th-place of St. Augustiu. It was to the north-west of Hippo 

 Kegius. 



* In the vicinity of this place, if it is the same as the Tigisis mentioned 

 by Procopius, there were two columns to be seen in his day, upon wliich 

 was wi-itten in the Phoenician language, " We fled from before the robber, 

 Joshua the son of Xim." 



* There were two towns of this name in the proconsular province of 

 Africa. The first was situate in tlie country of Zeugitana, five days' 

 journey west of Carthage, and it was here that Scipio defeated Hannibal. 

 The other bore the svumame of Hegia or Royal, from being the fi'equcnt 

 residence of the Numidian kings. It lay in 'the interior, and at the pre- 

 sent day its site bears the name of 'Zowarin' or 'Zewarin.' 



^ The ruins of Capsa still bear the name of Cafsa or Ghafsah. It was 

 an important city m the extreme south of Numidia, situate in an oasis, 

 in the midst of an arid desert abounding in serpents. In the Jugurthiuo 

 war it was the treasury of Jugurtha, and was taken and destroyed by 

 Marius ; but was afterwards rebuilt and made a colony. 



7 They dwelt between the river Am])S!i(Ta or Wady-El-Ivebir and the 

 Tusca or Wady-Zain, tlie westeni boundary of tlie Carthaginian territory. 



s Dwelling to tlic east of the mountain Zatyeus, now known as the 

 Wanashrise, according to Shaw. 



» The ancients called by the name of ' Gojtulians' all the people of 

 Africa who dwelt soutli of the iMauritanias and Nuniidia, as far as the 

 line which, aceorthng to tlieir ideas, sejiarated Africa from iEthiopia. 



^^ The QuoiTa most probably of modem geographers. 



^' So called, as mentioned below, from its five ])rincipal cities. 



^■- Where Jupiter Amnion orHammon was worshiped under tlie form 

 of a ram, the form he was said to have assumed when tlie deities wero 

 dispersed in tlie \^r with the Giants. Ancient Ammonium id the pre- 

 sent oasis of Siwah in the Libyan Desei't. 



