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tKor has (15) fufficiently exploded the fabulous ac- 
count of Acefta, the pretended founder of Segeha, 
given us by fome of the ancient writers; though, 
for want of the afliftance of the Punic coin before 
me, he could not hit upon the true name the city 
now in view, at lead: when the medal I am con- 
ddering firft appeared, went under amongft the 
Carthaginians. 
As no chronological characters occur on the piece 
conlidcred here, the time when it was {truck can- 
not, with any precifion, be afcertained. That ope- 
ration muit, however, have preceded the conclulion 
of the fird; Punic war; fince the Carthaginians, by the 
treaty of peace which terminated that war, ceded 
the (16) whole of their poiTefTions in 'the idand of 
Sicily to the Romans. Nay, the medal I ■ am en- 
deavouring to throw fome light upon was probably 
prior, perhaps many years, to the furrender of 
Segefta(i7) to the Romans, in the beginning of the 
drift Punic war, when the inhabitants of’Segefta put 
the African garrifon there to the fword, about 258 
years before the birth of Christ; the Carthagi- 
nians feeming never to have been poiTeffed of this 
ancient city, after that tragical event.- 
(15) Sam. Bochart. lib. I. g. 27. p. 563, 564. : Fran- 
cofurti ad Moenum, i68u 
(16) Polyb. Liv. Orof. Zonar. &c. Univ, Hijl. Vol. vi. 
Lend. 1742. 
(17) Polyb. Diod. Sic. Livi Orof, I/wiv. Hij}, Vol. vi, 
S29, Lend, 1742. 
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