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the sea-coast, extending from Carthage to the Cephalas Promon- 
tori um, and to the Masselibii'*, is the territory of the Libyphoe- 
nices.” 
But it will scarcely, we imagine, be thought absolutely necessary 
to conclude, that, because Byzacium may have formed a part of the 
territory of the Libyphoenices, the whole of the country inhabited by 
these people must therefore be called Byzacium ; for Strabo himself 
has informed us that the Byzacians extended only to the eastern 
hmits of Carthage (that is, of Carthage Proper, or Zeugitana) ; whereas 
the tract which he has assigned to the Libyphoenices generally, com- 
prehended the whole of the Carthagenian territory, from the Cephalas 
Promontorium to the country of the Massaesyli. The Massmsyli 
were a people of Numidia, and their district formed the western 
boundary of that country and Mauretania ; so that between them 
and the Byzacians (whom we may, surely, conclude to be the inha- 
bitants of the country from which their name is derived) the whole 
of Numidia and Carthage Proper intervenes. The Libyphoenices 
appear to have been the descendants of the Phoenicians (or Car- 
thaginians) and of the several native African, or Libyan, tribes in 
* The Masssesyli seem here to be intended by Signor Della Celia, as will appear from 
the passage in question. 
'TmpKsirai Sb T»jy a<jro K«gx»)Sovor wagaXias-, KefpctXiwv xai rvf MaffffocimXim, ^ 
TWV Aifo^oiviJt&iv 7 »), /A6X?‘ TaivTcuTuXm ogsivTir, yiSs Ai<^vKns ovans. (Lib. 17. § 19.) 
The passage which follows from the Second Book of Strabo, fixes the limits which he 
has assigned to the country of the Byzacii. 
raurris, xai run Si/gTEWv, xai Nao’a;//.&/vfl:s', xai rt»v rairaXcwv Tivas’ siroc 
Sivrar, xal ^u^ccmus, r»!r Kapxv^oviaf . . .(Lib. 2. p. 131.) 
