Of the Summer Circuit. 1 6 s 



Thlmida and Mezel-je-me'me, the Tbeudalis and Thini/Ja ' Thimida,TCi 



•' _ ^ ^-^ Theuda- 



of the Antients, are two Villages fituated upon the Lake oi'^y-^Exc.ji. 

 Bizerta ; This, at three Miles Diftance to the S. E. the Other, <-• Mezel-" 

 at feven to the S. W. of that City. There are lome FootftepsiHiMssA. 

 of Antiquity at both Places ; and near the former, the Lake 

 is confiderably contracted, forming Itfelf (as it were) into Two, ^^ 

 whereof the Southermoft may be taken for the Sifara Ta/us,^^^''''"^'- 



■' ' ' TEs. Eve p. 



the other for the Hipponites of the old Geography. h• b-.c. 



Jibbel Iskell, a remarkable round Mountain, the Cirna, \ jibbci iskeii, 

 prefume, of the Antients, lyeth, ontheS. W. fide oi thQ^Q eL.^.^^A'. 

 Lakes, five Leagues from Bizerta. At a little Diftance from 

 It to the S. E. is Matter, the Oppidum Materenfe, rather perhaps t Mitter,we 

 than the antient Madaura, which, according to St. Auguβ^ne\ Maurciue. 

 muft have been farther from Carthage. It is, at prefent, a '''' ^^" 

 fmall Village, fituated upon a rifing Ground, in the midft of a 

 fruitful Plain : and a little below It, there is a Rivulet, which 

 emptieth Itfelf into the Sifara Talus. 



t Ten Leagues to the S. W. of Matter, is the City Beja or Bay-jah, η^ 

 Bay-jah, which by the Name and Situation fliould be thevIcExTE 

 Vacca^' oi Sallufl, the Oppidum Vagenfe oiTliny, the βαγα* ofii^'c.''' ^* 

 Tlutarch , and the Vaccenfium Ordo SplendidiJJimus, as the 

 Title feems to run in the firft of the following Infcriptions. 

 Cellarius^ placeth It very juftly towards the N. E. οι Cirta or 

 Confantina, but doth not quote His Authority. However 

 fuch a Stuation feems to be implyed in the Defcriptions we 

 have of It ; viz. that It lay to the right Hand, (as Keffor Sicca 

 Keneria did to the left) of the Road '^, which the Romans com- 

 monly made ufe of in their way to Numidia. After It re- 

 volted, Metellus^ is faid to have departed from His Winter 

 Quarters in the Evening, and to have arrived before It, about 

 the third Hour of the following Day : which Journey, confi- 



1 Vide Agatbodiimon'is Tabulam Ptolemaicam & CelLir. Geogr. Ant. 1. 4. Cap. 4. p. loj•. 

 2 Dum tnihi redufto a Madaur'ts, in qua vicina Urbe jam coeperani literature atque oratoriae 

 percipiendie gratia pcregrinari, loiiginquioris apud Carthaginem peregrinationis fumtus prapara- 

 bantur. D. y^ugufl. 1. 2. Confels. Cap. 3. 3 Erat haud longe ab eo itinerc quo Metellus 

 pergebac, oppidum Ntimidarum, aomme Vacca, forum rerum venalium totius rcgni maxime 

 celebratum, ubi & incolere & mercari confueverunt Italici generis multi mortales. Sail. 

 Bell. Jug. 5• 50. 4 Φρβρων 3 Baj*)», ττίλ/ι» μί^Μν &c. Flut. in Mario, p. 409. y Vaga a Cirta in 

 ortum sftivum diftat. Cellar. \.4f. Cap. j. p.114. 6 Vid. Not. 3. Sail. Bell. Jug. !• 60. 



7 Metellus, poftquam de rebus Vaccs aftis comperit Legionem cum qua hiemabat & 



quam^ plurimos ψοΐζ^ Numidas equites pariter cum occafu folis expeditos educit; & pollera 



die circitcr horam tcrtiam provenit in quandam planitiem docet oppidum Vaccam non 



amplius mille paffuum abcltc. Id. ^.71. 



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