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tion of the Psylli\ and above them again the Lake of Lyco- 
medes^, surrounded with deserts. The Augylse themselves 
are situate almost midway between Ethiopia which faces 
the west^, and the region which lies between'* the two Syrtes, 
at an equal distance from both. The distance along the 
coast that lies between the two Syrtes is 250 miles. On it 
are found the city of CEa^, the river Cinyps^, and the country 
of that name, the towns of JN'eapolis'', Graphara^, and Abroto- 
num^, and the second, surnamed the Grreater, Leptis^^. 
We next come to the Greater Syrtis, 625 miles in cir- 
cumference, and at the entrance 312 miles in width ; next 
after which dwells the nation of the Cisippades. At the 
bottom of this gulf was the coast of the Lotophagi, whom 
some writers have called the Alachro8e^\ extending as far as 
the Altars of the Philasni^^ ; these Altars are formed of heaps 
1 Eor an account of the PsyUi see !B. vii. c. 2. They probably dwelt 
in the vicinity of the modern Cape Mesurata. 
2 ]^ow Lake Lynxama, according to Marcus. 
3 Marcus observes that in order properly to understand this passage we 
must remember that the ancients considered Africa as terminating north 
of the Equator, and imagined that from the Straits of Hercules the western 
coast of Africa ran, not towards the south-west, but slanted in a south- 
easterly direction to the Straits of Babelmandel. ^ The modern Tripoh. 
5 A flourishing city with a mixed population of Libyans and Sicihans. 
It was at this place that Apuleius made his eloqtient and ingenious de- 
fence against the charge of sorcery brought against him by his step-sons. 
According to some writers the modern Tripoh is built on its site, while 
other accounts make it to have been situate six leagues from that city, 
6 Now caUed the Wady-el-Quaham. 
7 Manner t is of opinion that this was only another name for the city 
of Leptis Magna or the "Grreater Leptis" here mentioned by Phny. 
There is httle doubt that his supposition is correct. 
^ The more common reading is Taphra or Taphara. D'Anville iden- 
tifies it with the town of Sfakes, 
y Scylax identifies it with Neapolis or Leptis, and it is generally looked 
upon as being the same place as Sabrata or Old Tripoh. 
10 Now called Lebida. It was the birth-place of the Emperor Sep- 
timius Severus. It was almost destroyed by an attack from a Libyan 
tribe A.D. 366, and its ruin was completed by the invasion of the Arabs. 
Its ruins are considerable. 
11 " Men of sea complexion," is the meaning of this Grreekname. Ac- 
cording to Marcus they dwelt between the Grreater Leptis and the Lake 
Tritonis, at the present day called Schibkah-el-Loudeah. For a further 
account of the Lotophagi, see B. xiii. c. 32. 
12 Two brothers, citizens of Carthage, who in a dispute as to their 
