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This Place feems to have received It's prefent Name froili the^-aff^reen,<;r 

 Maujolea, which, at a Diftance, have the Appearance of fo many 

 \^jj'^* Cajfareen\ Towers or FortreiTes. I could not make out^ 

 in the Infcription over the Triumphal Arch, the firft Letters in 

 the Word after Colonic, upon which the antient Name dependeth. 

 But TadreXimenes, the 8ραηΊβ)^άιηΊηϊβταάον at Tunis ;<n2a more 

 fuccefsful in viiiting thefe Ruins : for by drawing up His Interpre- 

 ter as high as the Prize, He found It to be Sc'illttariie : the fame 

 Place probably that is fo memorable for the Martyrdom' fuiFer- 

 ed by If s Citizens. 



G'llma, the antient Ci////^, or Oppidum Chilmanenfe, is fixGiima, »<- 

 Leagues to the E. S. E. of Spaitla. We have here the Remains ^«.''ρ^ό.ο. 

 of a large City, with the ukrea of a Temple, and fome other ^"^"^' 

 Fragments of large Buildings. According to a Tradition of the 

 Arabs, this Place received It's Name in Confequence of a Mi- 

 racle, pretended to have been wrought by one of Ύ\\€νί Marah- 

 hutts , in bringing hither the River οι Spaitla, after It was 

 loft under Ground, as hath been before taken Notice of. For 

 Ja Elma [}•^^^ ^^] fignifieth in their Language The Water comes \ 

 an ExpreiTion, we are to imagine, of Surprife, at the Arrival 

 of the Stream. 



Menzil and Menzil Heire are two little Villages fix Miles to Menzii, ue 

 the Weftward of Sahaleel. Thefe may poiTibly be the Zeta ^ and ζΓκίΙϊΐΓ' 

 Vacca mentioned by Hirtius', as they lye at the likeDiftance,j/mme1,^K4 

 and in the fame Situation from Agar, that are given to them Siui."^ "•'' 

 by that Author. J'lmmel likewife, fix Miles to the Southward 

 οι Menzil Heire , ihould, from the Pofition of It below, or, as 

 we may conjedlure, to the S. W. of the Camp of Scipio, be the 

 Tega;a ^ of the fame Hiftorian. All Thefe Villages lye in an open 

 champain Country , diverfified in feveral Places with Olive 

 Trees. 



I His adde Speratum, aliofque Martyrcs, fub Sciirit.inoru»i nomine celeberrimos apud Car- 

 thaghtem Proconluli oblatos, ac ab eu damnatos Martyrium complevilTc ut ex eorum aftis 

 patct, qux incer ΑίΙα Martpum Shicera edidimus. p. 8 j. &c. Vid. Τ". Ruinarti Not. in Notit. 

 Afric. p. 27J. 2 Vz.ita [Zeta. Sail.) quam defcribic Ptoleiiuiis fuh Akumeto & parva Z,f- 

 pti [Exc. p. 16. E.) nomen habet ϊ ΓΊ'? Zaith i. e. oliva vcl oliveto. Hhtius enira piope Vz.i- 

 tam oliveti raeminit. Pr'ius, inquit, necejfe Vallem olivetumque tranfgredi. Boch. Chan l.i. cap. 

 24. 3 UAfnr interim * caftris incenfis * pervenit ad opjjidum /igar * Scipio interim, cognito 

 Caftris difcefTu, cum univerfis copiis per jugum Cafarem fubfequi caepit j atqne ab ejus ca- 

 ftris millia paiTuum VI longe, trinis caibis difpartitis copiis, confedit. Hirt. Bell. Afric. 5• 

 58. Oppidum erat Zeta ; quod aberat i Scipione millia paiTuum XI ad ejus regionem & par- 

 tem caftrorum collocatum; ^ Cafare autem diverfum ac remotum, quod erat ab eo longe 

 millia pafluum XVIII. Id. ?. jp. Oppidum Facca quod finitimum fuit Zetx. Id. ?• 62. 

 4 Erat oppidum infra caftra Scipionis, now'msTegaa. Id. 5,67, 



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