"We here find three promontories; the White Promontory[1],
the Promontory of Apollo[2], facing Sardinia, and that of
Mercury[3], opposite to Sicily. Projecting into the sea these headlands form two gulfs, the first of which bears the name
of "Hipponensis" from its proximity to the city called
Hippo Dirutns[4], a corruption of the Greek name Diarrhytus, which it has received from the channels made for irrigation. Adjacent to this place, but at a greater distance from
the sea-shore, is Theudalis[5], a town exempt from tribute.
We then come to the Promontory of Apollo, and upon
the second gulf, we find Utica[6], a place enjoying the rights
of roman citizens, and famous for the death of Cato; the
river Bagrada[7], the place called Castra Cornelia[8], the co-
- ↑ Candidum : now Ras-el-Abiad.
- ↑ The references to this headland identify it with Cape Farina, or Ras Sidi Ali-al-Mekhi, and not, as some have thought, the more westerly Cape Zibeeb or Ras Sidi Bou-Shoushe. Shaw however applies the name of Zibeeb to the former.
- ↑ Now Cape Eon, or Ras-Addar.
- ↑ More properly called Hippo Diarrhytus or Zariliis, a Tyrian colony, situate on a large lake which communicated with the sea, and received the waters of another lake. Its situation exposed it to frequent inundations, whence, as the Greeks used to state, the epithet (
Greek characters). It seems more probable however that this is the remnant of some Phœnician title, as the ancients were not agreed on the true form of the name, and of this uncertainty we have a further proof in the Hippo Dirutus of our author.
- ↑ This is placed by Ptolemy to the south-east of Hippo, and near the southern extremity of Lake Sisar.
- ↑ This important city stood on the north part of the Carthaginian Gulf, west of the mouth of the Bagrada, and twenty-seven Roman miles N.W. of Carthage ; but the site of its ruins at the modern Bon-Shater is now inland, m consequence of the changes made by the Bagrada in the coast-line. In the Third Punic war Utica took part with the Romans against Carthage, and was rewarded with the greater part of the Carthaginian territory.
- ↑ Now called the Mejerdah, and though of very inconsiderable-size, the chief river of the Carthaginian territory. The main stream is formed by the union of two branches, the southern of which, the ancient Bagrada, is now called the Mellig, and in its upper course the Meskianah. The other branch is called the Hamiz.
- ↑ Or the "Cornelian Camp." The spot where Cornelius Scipio Afirca-
one-third of the globe, but also in contradistinction to the proconsular province of the Roman empire of the same name, which contained not only the province of Zeugitana, but also those of Nmnidia, Byzacium, and Tripolis.
