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pita, Melizita, Matera, Salaphita, Tusdrita\ Tiphica, Tunica^, 
Theuda, Tagasta^, Tiga^, Ulusubrita, a second Vaga^Yisa, and 
Zama^. 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 Grsetulia^, as far as the river Nigris^^, which separates 
Africa proper from Ethiopia. 
CHAP. 5. (5.) — CTEEIS'AICA. 
Tlie 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 Marcus. 
2 From it modern Tunis takes its name. 
3 The birth-place of St. Augustin. It was to the north-west of Hippo 
E-egius. 
^ In the vicinity of this place, if it is the same as the Tigisis mentioned 
by Procopius, 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 sm^name of Regia or Royal, from being the frequent 
residence of the ISTumidian kings. It lay in the interior, and at the pre- 
sent day its site bears the name of 'ZoTvarin' 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 abomiding in serpents. In the Jugurthine 
war it was the treasury of Jugm'tha, 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 boundary of the Carthaginian territory. 
s Dwelling to the east of the mountain Zalycus, now known as the 
Wanashrise, according to Shaw. 
^ The ancients called by the name of ' Grsetulians' all the people of 
Africa who dwelt south of the Mauritanias and Numidia, as far as the 
Hne which, according to theii* ideas, separated Africa from Ethiopia. 
10 (jj^e Quorra most probably of modern geographers. 
So called, as mentioned below, from its five principal cities. 
^2 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 Griants. Ancient Ammonium is the pre- 
sent oasis of Siwah in. the Libyan Desert. 
