upon the Sea-Coaft of the Winter Circuit. 187 



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

 Cothon, which we find Ccefar" could not enter in His Purfuit 

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

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

 it may be prefumed, as defar dire6led His Courfe from Leptis, 

 ( 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 ^driimetum \ becaufe as That Place lyeth nearly in the 

 like Direftion with Lempta and Herkla, the fame Wind which 

 brought Ci-efar to the Promontory upon which That City is 

 built, would have condu6led Him within It. 



Belides yarns ' is reported to have left jidrumetum in the Adrumemm 

 fecond Watch of the Night and to have arrived at Leptis early Di^L^ce/Z^w 

 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 defafs Marches. Now It appears that Ccejar 

 marched with His Army from Adrnmetum to Leptis in two 

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

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

 Rufp'ma 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 Ctefar's Ar- 

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

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

 and who had like wife a Variety of Skirmiflies and Difficulties to 

 retard their Marches '. Neither indeed was This a Seafon for 



I Varus celeritate C<e.faris audaciaque motus, cum univerfa clalTe, converfis navibus, A- 



drumetum verfus fugere contcndit. Quem Ciifar in millibus paffuum IV confecutus iri- 



remem hoftium proximum ■ ■ cepit : reliquae naves hoftium, Promontorium (upcr^runt, at- 



que Adrumetum In Cothonem fe univerfaz contulerunt. Cic/^r eodem vento Promontorium fu- 

 perare non potuicj acque in Saloin anchoris ea node commoratus &c. H'lrt. Bdl./^frk. ^.^6. 

 2 l^itrus, Vigilia fccunda Adriimeto ex Cothone egreffiis, prime mane Leptim univerfa clafTe ve- 

 «Sus &c. Id. 5.JJ. 3 Eo die caftra pofuit ad oppidum Rufpinam, Kalendis Januar. (5-jO 

 inde movit & pcrvenit ad oppidum Lept'in. (5-<5-) ad HI Non. Jan. caftra mover ; Z,r/»fique 

 VIcohortium prsfidio cum Safcrna relido ipfe rurfus, unde pridie venerat, Rufpinam cum 

 reliquis copiis convcrtit. (5- 8.) 4 Ad oppidum oppugnandum non iatis copiarum ha- 

 bebat & eas tironum. f. j. ibid, j Itaque caftra quum movere vellet, fubito ex oppido erupit 



multitudo & ejus agmen excremum infequi cceperunt ■ quod cum fepius facerent; 



& modo infequerencur, modo rurfus ab equitibus in oppidum repelleren:ur &c. /d. ib'td. 



A a a X long 



