Chap. 1.] ACCOrKT Or COtJKTEIES, ETC. 883 
althougli it was in the winter season that he visited them. 
"We also learn from the same source that the people w^ho 
inhabit the adjoining forests, which are full of all kinds of 
elephants, wild beasts, and serpents, haye the name of Ca- 
narii ; from the circumstance that they partake of their food 
in common with the canine race, and share with it the 
entrails of wild beasts. 
It is a well-known fact, that adjoining to these localities 
is a nation of Ethiopians, which bears the name of Perorsi. 
Juba, the father of Ptolemy, who was the first king^ who 
reigned over both the Mauritanias,and who has been rendered 
even more famous by the brilliancy of his learning than by 
his kingly rank, has given us similar information relative to 
Mount Atlas, and states that a certain herb grows there, 
which has received the name of ' euphorbia' ^ from that of his 
physician, who was the first to discover it. Juba extols with 
wondrous praises the milky juice of this plant as tending to 
improve the sight, and acting as a specific against the bites 
of serpents and all kinds of poison ; and to this subject alone 
he has devoted an entire book. Thus much, if indeed not 
more than enough, about Mount Atlas. 
(2.) The province of Tingitana is 170 miles in length'. 
Of the nations in this province the principal one was for- 
merly that of the Mauri who have given to it the name of 
Mauritania, and have been by many writers called the 
Maurusii^. This nation has been greatly weakened by the 
disasters of war, and is now dwindled dovm to a few fami- 
lies only^. Next to the Mauri was formerly the nation of 
^ Bocchus however, the kinsman of Massinissa, had previously for 
some time reigned over both the Mauritanias, consisting of Mauritania 
Tingitana and Maiiritania Csesariana. 
2 See B, XXV. c. 7. 12, and B. xxvi. c. 8. 
3 Extending from the sea to the river Moluga, now called the Molucha 
and Molochath, or Malva and Malvana. 
^ From whom the Moors of the present day take their name. Marcus 
observes here, that though PHny distinguishes the Mauri from the G-setuH, 
they essentially belonged to the same race and spoke the same language, 
the so-called Berber, and its dialects, the Schellou and the Schoviah. 
5 * Maurusii' was the Q-reek name, * Mauri' the Latin, for this people. 
Marcus suggests that Mauri was a synonym only for the Grreek word 
nomades^ 'wanderers.' 
* As Marcus observes, Pliny is here greatly in error. On the inroads of 
Paulinus, the Mauri had retreated into the interior and taken refuge in 
