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pita, Melizita, ^fatera, Salaphita, Tusdrita^ Tiphica, Tunica', 

 Theuda, Tagasta*, Tiga^ Ulusubrita, a second Vaga, Visa, and 

 Zaraa*. Of the remaining number, most of them should be 

 called, in strictness, not only cities, but nations even ; such 

 for instance as the Natabudes, the Capsitani", the Musu- 

 lami, the Sabarbares, the Massyli', the Nisives, the Vama- 

 cures, the Cinithi, the Musuni, the Marchubii*, and the whole 

 of Gsetulia", as far as the river Nigris'", which separates 

 Africa proper from Ethiopia. 



CHAP. 5. (5.) — CTRENAICA. 



The region of Cyrenaica, also called Pentapolis", is ren- 

 dered famous by the oracle of Hammon*', which is distant 

 400 miles from the city of Cyrene ; also by the Fountain of 



1 Now called El-Jemma, according to Marciu. 



2 From it modem Tmiis takes its name. 



' The birth-place of St. Augustin. It was to the north-west of Hippo 

 Regius. 



* In the vicinity of this place, if it is the same as the Tigisis mentioned 

 by Procopiua, there were two columns to be seen in his day, upon which 

 was written in the Phoenician language, " We fled from before the robber, 

 Joshua the son of Nun." 



' There were two towns of this name in the proconsular province of 

 Africa. The first was situate in the country of Zeugitana, five days' 

 journey west of Carthage, and it was here that Scipio defeated HannibaL 

 The other bore the surname of Regia or Royal, from being the frequent 

 residence of the Numidian kings. It lay in the interior, and at the pre- 

 sent day its site bears the name of ' Zowarin' or ' Zewarin.' 



* The ruins of Capsa still bear the name of Cafsa or Ghafsah. It was 

 an important city in the extreme south of Numidia, situate in an oasis, 

 in the midst of an arid desert abounding in serpents. In the Jugvuthine 

 war it was the treasiuy of Jugxirtha, and was taken and destroyed by 

 Marius ; but was afterwards rebuilt and made a colony. 



7 They dwelt between the river Ampsaga or Wady-El-Kebir and the 

 Tusca or Wady-Zain, the western boimdary of the Carthaginian territory. 



8 Dwelling to the east of the mountain Zalycus, now known as the 

 Wanashrise, according to Shaw. 



* The ancients called by the name of * Gaetulians' all the people of 

 Africa who dwelt south of the Mauritanias and Numidia, as far as the 

 hue which, according to then* ideas, separated Africa from Ethiopia. 



^® The Quorra most probably of modem geographers. 



^^ So called, as mentioned below, from its five principal cities. 



^* Where Jupiter Ammon or Hammon was worshiped under the form 

 of a ram, the form he was said to have assumed when the deities were 

 dispersed in the war with the Giants. Ancient Ammonium is the pre- 

 sent oasis of Siwah in the libyan Desert. 



