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gated the Fezzan tribe and tlie cities of Mellulen 

 and Zala, as well as Gadamez in the direction of 

 Sabrata. After these a long range stretches from 

 east to west which our people from its nature call 

 the Black Mountain, as it has the appearance of 

 having suifered from fire, or else of being scorched 

 by the reflection of the sun. Beyond this mountain 

 range is the desert, and then a tovm of the Gara- 

 mantes called Thelgae, and also Bedir (near which 

 tliere is a spring of which the water is boiling hot 

 from midday to midnight and then freezing cold for 

 the same number of hours until midday) and Garama, 

 the celebrated capital of the Garamantes : all of 

 which places have been subdued by the arms of 

 Rome, being conquered by Cornehus Balbus, who 

 was given a triumph — the only foreigner ever so 

 honoured — and citizen rights, since, although a 

 nalive of Cadiz, he together ■with his great-uncle, 

 Balbus, was presented ^nth our citizenship. There 

 is also this remarkable circumstance, that our writers 

 have handed down the names of the towns mentioned 

 above as having been taken by him, and have stated 

 that in his own triuraphal procession beside Cydamum 

 and Garama were carried the names and images of 

 all the other races and cities, which went in this 

 order : the to^^Ti of Tibesti, the Niteris tribe, the 

 town of Milgis Gemella, ihe tribe or town of Febabo, 

 the tribe of the F.nipi, the town of Thuben, the 

 mountain known as the Black Mountain, the towns 

 called Nitibrum and Rapsa, the Im-Zera tribe, the 

 to^\Ti of Om-El-Abid, the river Tessava, the to^vn of 

 Sava, the Tamiagi tribe, the town of Boin, the town 

 of Winega, the river Dasibari ; then a series of 

 towns, Baracum, Buluba, Alasit, Galsa, Balla, Misso- 



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