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Doctor maintains a contrary opinion, on the authority of his friend 
Captain Lautier*. 
It is somewhere at the bottom of the Syrtisf that we must have 
looked for the monuments erected to the Philseni, had they still been 
in existence ; it appears however, as we have before mentioned, on 
the authority of Strabo, that they were no longer extant in the time 
of that geographer. But if the pillars have disappeared which 
marked the spot where the brothers were interred, the record of 
their patriotism still exists in the pages of history ; and the account 
which has been given of this disinterested sacrifice by Sallust may 
not perhaps be unacceptable to the reader if. “ At the time (says that 
* Ed io incline tanto piii a credere quest’ ampia depressione di suolo giungere fine al 
gran deserto, poiche per quanto posso congetturare dal caramino fatto non sarebbe 
improbabile che 1’ estremita del golfo si prolungasse assai piu a mezzodi di quel che 
trovasi nelle raigliori carte, nelle quali non saprei sopra qual fondamento e stata stabi- 
lita. E' per me di qualche peso la relazione del Cap. Lautier, il quale non navigb cer- 
tamente oltre il 30° 27' 1 1" di latitudine, ma da questo punto non iscopri il fondo del 
golfo, ne v’ era apparenza di prossimita al continente. Ho ferma credenza che migliori 
osservazioni confermeranno questa mia congettura. — (p. 94.) 
+ For Strabo tells us (lib. iii. p. 171), in alluding to the custom practised by the 
ancients, of erecting columns on particular occasions, that the monuments i-aised to the 
memory of the Philseni were situated nearly midway in the Syrtis — at least, such is the 
sense in which we must take this passage, to make it at all consistent with the position 
allotted to the Philsenean altars in the seventeenth book. Although we may certainly 
read in the passage we are about to quote, above mentioned, “ midway in the country 
between the Syrtes " — for the Syrtes are here mentioned in the plural — and this cir- 
cumstance would otherwise rather tend to confirm the position of the altars in the table 
of Peutinger (as mentioned by Cellarius, lib. iv. cap. 3, sec. 3.) which is between the 
two Gulfs of Syrtis. “ At, in Peutingeriana tabula vetusta, (says Cellarius) redacta; 
hae arse sunt fere ad minorem Syrtim, ut dubitare possis de situ et positione ex tot auc- 
toribus jam descripta.” Strabo’s words are — kou oi (piXaivwv Xsyo/Asvoi /Scu/zoi, Hara 
zsou, TTiv rojv yzv. 
J Bell. Jugurth. (79.) 
