240 MARTIN L. ROUSE, ESQ., ON " PROCOPIUS's AFRICAN 



(or the Aiires Mountains), 185 miles south-west of Carthage, 

 96 miles west of the nearest point in the old province of 

 Byzacium, and 53 miles south of the nearest coast town, 

 Rusicade (or Phihppeville), being identified Avith the Arabic 

 settlement that bears the suggestive name of Ain el Bordj, or 

 Well of the Castle. It must be carefully distinguished from 

 Tigisi in Mauretania, whicli is found to have lain in the well- 

 Avatered region of Kabylia, 373 miles from Carthage and 

 273 from Byzacium. Still less claim had Tingis, the modern 

 Tangiers, to be considered the site of the monument, though 

 travellers used to afiirm it to be, since it lies more than 800 

 miles from Carthage and more than 900 from Byzacium. 



At once I wrote to the editor of the ancient atlas, asking 

 his reasons for the identification, and got a courteous reply 

 from Herr Richard Kiepert, his father's successor in the 

 great work, enclosing the evidence in the form of an 

 inscription discovered at Ain el Bordj, which reads as 

 folloAvs : — 



FLAVIO VALERIO 



CONSTANTIO 



NOBILISSIMO 



CAESART 



ORDO TICISITANVS 



[D]EVOTVS NVMINI 



[M]AIESTATIQVE EIVS 



EX SVA CONLATIONE 



POSVIT IDEMQVE 



DEDICAVIT * 



Turned into English it would run : — 



" To Flavins Valerius Constantius, the most noble 

 emperor, the senate of Ticisis, devoted to his divinity and 

 majesty, have, by subscription among themselves, set up 

 and dedicated this monument." 



The writing of C in TICISITANVS instead of G may be 

 an imitation of the primitive Latin forms of inscription, 

 Avherein C stood for the sound or sounds of G, because this 

 letter Avas not brought into the alphabet until B.C. 233 ; but 

 it is much more likely that the sound in the name Avas 

 variously pronounced by different nations or tribes, even as 

 iveg and tag in divers parts of Germany are made to end 

 Avith the hard g, the k, or the kh sound, and even as, strange 



* Capus Inscrip. Lat., VIII, p 960, u. 10,820. 



