alia, deinde alia loca petiverant, semet ipsi Nomadas appellavere.
Ceterum adhuc aedificia Numidarum agrestium, quae mapalia illi vocant,
oblonga, incurvis lateribus tecta, quasi navium carinae sunt. Medi autem
et Armenii accessere Libyes[129] (nam hi propius mare Africum agitabant,
Gaetuli sub sole magis, haud procul ab ardoribus) hique mature oppida
habuere; nam freto divisi ab Hispania mutare res inter se instituerant.
Nomen eorum paulatim Libyes corrupere, barbara lingua Mauros pro
Medis[130] appellantes. Sed res Persarum brevi adolevit; ac postea nomine
Numidae, propter multitudinem a parentibus digressi, possedere ea loca,
quae proxime Carthaginem Numidia appellatur. Deinde utrique[131] alteris
freti finitimos armis aut metu sub imperium suum coegere, nomen
gloriamque sibi addidere; magis ii, qui ad nostrum mare processerant,
quia Libyes quam Gaetuli minus bellicosi. Denique Africae pars inferior
pleraque ab Numidis possessa est; victi omnes in gentem nomenque
imperantium concessere.

[125] Within the clause expressed by the ablative absolute
(_multis--petentibus_) there is inserted another stating that each
did so for himself, and that in the nominative case, because _multis
petentibus_ is, after all, only a different form for _quum multi
peterent_. Grammatically speaking, it ought to be _sibi quoque_; but
no Latin would have understood this, since he would have taken
_quoque_ as an adverb. See Zumpt, S 710. _Passim_, 'in different
places,' 'scattered everywhere,' but not 'here and there.' The
tradition of the immense conquests extending to the western
extremities of the known earth, which are ascribed to Hercules
(Heracles), who occurs in the traditions of various nations, runs
through the whole of ancient history.
[126] _Nostrum mare_ is the Mediterranean, the African coast of which
was occupied by the parts of Hercules' army here mentioned; and