TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI.

69 the sea-coast, extending from Carthage to the Cephalas Promontori um, and to the Masselibii'*, is the territory of the Libyphoenices.”

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, comprehended 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 inhabitants 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 Carthaginians) 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 AifooiviJt&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 uccmus, r»!r Kapxvoviaf . . .(Lib. 2. p. 131.)