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cities. After the destruction of Carthage it flourished under the 
government of the Romans, and was remarkable, as we are informed 
by Sallust, for its fidelity and obedience 
After the occupation of Northern Africa by the Vandals, the 
walls and fortifications of Leptis appear to have been dismantled 
or destroyed f : they were probably afterwards restored under Justi- 
nian, when the city became the residence of the Prefect Sergius ; and 
we find them, on the authority of Leo Africanus, to have been finally 
demohshed by the Saracens 
F rom that time the city appears to have been wholly abandoned ; 
and its remains were employed in the construction of Modern Tri- 
poly, as Leo has also informed us. 
During the Prefecture of Sergius, who presided over the district 
of Tripolis §, Leptis Magna was attacked by a neighbouring African 
tribe ; and Sergius himself, after some previous successes, was reduced 
* Nam Leptitani jam inde a principio belli Jugurthini ad Bestiam Consulem et 
postea Romam miserant, amicitiam, societatemque rogatum. Dein, ubi ea impetrata 
fuere semper boni, fideiesque mansere ; et cuncta a Bestia, Albino, Metelloque imperata 
gnavitur fecerant. — (Bell. Jugurth. § 77.) 
•f- At Gizerichus alia moliri non desiit. Nam, prseter Carthaginem, Africae urbes 
nudavit omnes. . . — (Procop. Hist. Vandal, a Grotio, Lib. 1. p. 17. 
f Questa citta (Leptis M.) fu edificata da Romani con mura alte di pietre grosse: la 
quale fu due volte rovinata da Macomettani, e delle sue pietre e colonne fu edificata 
Tripoli. — (5ta. parte, p. 72.) 
Leo here alludes to the restoration of the city, and not to its first erection by the 
Phoenicians. 
§ Bacchi (Solomonis frater erat) filios duos regendis Africae partibus misit Imperator; 
Pentapoli Cyrum, natu majorem, Tripoli Sergium. — (Procopius, Hist. Vandal, Lib. 2. 
p. 119.) 
