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All the 3 p 4 fihrds who live about the Ruins I have 
been defcribing, fay they are the remains of a City of 
the Gentiles called Cartago. The corruption of CarteU 
into a name fo much more talked of, might eafily hap- 
pen in an Oral Tradition of fo many Years ; and I 
cannot help thinking that, where other Circumftances 
concur, an account deliver’d down from Father to Son 
is an evidence not to be flighted, in matters of fo 
much obfcurity. 
Frequent mention is made of C^rteia by the Ancient 
Geographers and Hiflorians. I build fo much on two 
Pafl^ges of Livy, that I am obliged to infert them at 
length. The firfl is Lib. XXVlll. C. 30. ( Livy does 
not mention from what Port Letlius failed for Carteia, 
but by what goes before, it feems to have been from 
Cartagena, at that time Scipio's Head Quarters) Lidius 
interim, freto in Oceanum eveoius, ad Carteiam cU^e ac» 
cejfit, (Urhs ea in ora Oceani fit a eft, uhi primfem e fauci- 
hit anguflis panditur mare ) Gades fine certamine prodi^ 
tione recipiendi (ultro, qui earn rem pcllicerentur, in cafira 
Romana pervenientilus) fpes, Jicut ante a dititim eft, fue- 
rat. Sed patefa^a immatura proditio eft, comprehenfcfque 
omnes Mago Adherbali Carthaginem devehend&s 
iradit. Ad herbal, Conjuratis in quinqueremem impofttis, 
pr^miffaqne ea, quia tardior quam triremis erat, ipfe cum 
oBo triremihus medico intervallo fequitur. Jam /return 
intrahat quinqueremis, cum Ledius ipfe in quinquere- 
mi, e portu Carteiae, fequentihus f/ptem triremibuSy eve^ 
Bus, in Adherbalcm triremes invehitur; quinqueremem 
fatis credens deprekenfam rapido in freto, in adverjum reftum 
recifrocari non poffe: Pcenus, in re fuhita parumper in- 
certus^ trepidavit utrum quinqueremem [equeretur, an in 
hoftes roftra converteret, Ipfa cunBatfo facultatem detre- 
Bandre ptigna ademit: jam enim fuh iBu teli erant, ^ 
undique inftabant hoftes, ^Lflus quoque arhitrium moderan- 
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