upon the Sea-Coaft of the Winter Circuit. 187 



To the W. and S. W. of this Promontory were the Port and "^^' ^"'^ "'"^ 



Cuthon. 



Cothon, which we find defar ' could not enter in His Purfuit 

 of Varus, but was obliged to lay at Anchor without It^ or to 

 the Eaftwardj as we may imagine, of the Promontory. Now 

 it may be prefumed, as C^far directed His Courfe from Lepthy 

 ( or Lempta as It is called at prefent ) that no other than a 

 Southerly or Wefterly Wind could have brought Him thus far 

 to the Northward : it is certain, an eafterly one, provided It 

 continued, would, from the very Situation of This Port and 

 Promontory, have eafily conduced Him within Them. And 

 from This Circumftance, I apprehend, we may draw another Ar- 

 gument, that Hamam-ety as was before pretended, could not 

 be the Adrumetum ; becaufe as That Place lyeth nearly in the 

 like Direftion with Lempta and Herhla, the fame Wind which 

 brought Ccefar to the Promontory upon which That City is 

 built, would have conducted Him within It. 



Befides Vartis ' is reported to have left Adrumetum in the Admmetum 

 fecond Watch of the Night and to have arrived at Lept'is early ϊ^Ι^Γ/^τ» 

 in the Morning. No confiderable Diftance therefore could have ^^^^"" 

 been betwixt thofe two Places. But as travelling by Sea is pre- 

 carious and uncertain, we may with more certainty compute 

 the Diftance by C^efafs Marches. Now It appears that Co'far 

 marched with His Army from ^drumetum to Leptis in two 

 Days, and returned the third to Rujpina ' where He had lodged 

 the firft Night. If Hamam-et then was the Adriimetum and 

 Rujpina the half Way (as may be fuppofed) to Leptis, Their 

 Marches muft have been nearly forty Roman Miles a Day ; a 

 Fatigue even too great for the hardieft Veterans of Ccejar\ Ar- 

 my, much more for fuch unexperienced ^ Troops as He had then 

 with Him ; who were fcarce recovered from their Sea Sickneis, 

 and who had likewife a Variety of Skirmiflies and Difficulties to 

 retard their Marches ^ Neither indeed was This a Seafon for 



I Vxfus celeritatc C^farts audaciaque potus, cum univerfa cla^ffe, converfis navibus, A- 



drumetum verfu? fugerc contendit. Quern C&far in niiJlibus paiTuum IV confccutus tri- 



rcmem hoftium proximum cepic : rcliqux naves holtium, Promontorium (upcr^runt, ae- 

 quo Adruniexum in Cothonem fe univerlx contulcrunt. C^far eodem vento Promontorium i\i- 

 pcrare non potuit; atquc in Saloin anchoris ea node commoratus &c. Hhl. Bcll.yifric. ?.j(i. 

 2 Varus, Vigilia (ccnnaii Adrurmto duCutbone cgreifHS, primo mane Leptim univerfa claflTe ve- 

 ftus &c. Id. i-jy. 3 Eo die calha poiuic ad oppidiim Kiifpinam, Kalendis Januar. (5•^•) 

 inde movit 6c pervenit ad oppidum Lipiin- (5<5.) ad III Non. Jan. cailra mover ; Lept'ique 

 VIcoliortium prxfidio cum Saferna relido ipfe nirius, unde pridie venerat, Rufp'inam cum 

 reliquis copiis convcrtit. (5. 8.) ^ Ad oppidum oppugnandum non fatis copiaium ha- 

 bebat & eas tironum. ?. j. ibid, y Itaque cailra quum movcre vellet, fubico ex oppido erupic 



multitudo & ejus agmen extremum infequi cceperunt quod cum IJspius facerent; 



& mode infequerentur, modo rurfus ab equitibus in oppidum repellercutur &c. Id. ibid. 



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