[962] Shaw has the merit of having first pointed out the true situation of this celebrated city. Before his time it was sought sometimes at Biserta, sometimes at Farina, but he fixed it near the little miserable “Douar,” which has a holy tomb called Boushatter, and with this view many writers have agreed. Adherbal, however, was besieged and captured in Cirta (Constantine), B. C. 109. [963] An unknown name. Letronne supposes Thisica to be meant, mentioned by Ptolemy, iv. 3. [964] Vaga or Vacca, now Bayjah. [965] Shaw takes Ferreanah to have been the ancient Thala or Telepte, but Lapie seeks it at Haouch-el-Khima. [966] Cafsa. [967] Jama. [968] Probably near the ruins of Leptis Parva. [969] El Aliah. [970] Karkenah or Ramlah. [971] Hippo Regius, Bonah; and Hippo Zaritus, Bizerta. [972] Wady Mejerdah. [973] Letronne corrects this reading to 2000, which is the number given by Polybius and Arrian. [974] By the Romans, Numidæ. [975] Pantellaria. [976] Marsala. [977] Kramer is of opinion that this passage from the beginning of the section is an interpolation. Cossura (the island Pantellaria) is nowhere else spelt Corsura; Cossuros is the spelling observed immediately below. Its distance from Aspis is differently stated in b. vi. c. ii. § 11, to be 88 miles from Aspis. Ægimurus is the small island Zembra, near Cape Bon; near it is also another small low rocky island. From the shape and appearance of the former, more especially in some positions, we may attribute the name Aræ (altars), given to them, as in Pliny: “Ægimuræ Aræ, scopuli verius quam insulæ;” and they are the “Aræ” of Virgil, Æn. i. 108. [978] i. e. sacred to Mercury. Cape Bon. [979] Cape Aclibia, from the Latin Clypea. B. vi. c. 2, § 11. [980] Malta. [981] Sousah. [982] Demass. [983] Lampedusa. [984] Kramer’s proposed emendation is followed. [985] Gulf of Cabes. [986] Jerba or Zerbi. It produced the “lotus-zizyphus” or the carob, now common in the islands of the Mediterranean and on the continent. [987] Od. ix. 84. [988] Sabrata? [989] Lebida. [990] Gerace. See b. vi. c. i. § 7, 8. [991] The Cinifo or Wadi-Quasam. [992] Cape Canan or Mesrata. [993] See b. ii. c. v. § 20. [994] Its position, like that of so many places on the Great Syrtis, can hardly be determined with certainty. A full discussion of these localities will be found in Barth’s Wanderungen. [995] About the middle of the fourth century, B. C., according to a story in Sallust, these monuments commemorated the patriotic sacrifice of two Philæni, Carthaginian envoys. [996] Gulf of Suez. [997] Ben Ghazi. Berenice previously bore the name Hesperides, which name seems to have been derived from the fancy which found the fabled Gardens of the Hesperides in the fertile terraces of Cyrenaïca. [998] Ras-Teyonas. [999] Cape Catacolo. [1000] Groskurd justly supposes that the name Chelonatas (Cape Tornese) is here wanting in the text. [1001] Zante. [1002] Tochira.