imperii cupidine, sollicitata plebe et aliis novarum rerum avidis,[132]
Hipponem, Hadrumetum, Leptim[133] aliasque urbes in ora maritima
condidere, eaeque brevi multum auctae, pars originibus suis[134]
praesidio, aliae decori fuere. Nam[135] de Carthagine silere melius puto
quam parum dicere, quoniam alio properare tempus monet. Igitur ad
Katabathmon, qui locus Aegyptum ab Africa dividit, secundo mari[136]
prima Cyrene est, colonia Theraeon, ac deinceps duae Syrtes,[137]
interque eas Leptis; deinde Philaenon arae,[138] quem locum Aegyptum
versus finem imperii habuere Carthaginienses, post aliae Punicae urbes.
Cetera loca usque ad Mauretaniam Numidae tenent; proxime Hispaniam Mauri
sunt. Super Numidiam[139] Gaetulos accepimus partim in tuguriis, alios
incultius vagos agitare, post eos Aethiopas esse, dein loca exusta solis
ardoribus. Igitur bello Jugurthino pleraque ex Punicis oppida et fines
Carthaginiensium, quos novissime[140] habuerant, populus Romanus
permagistratus administrabat, Gaetulorum magna pars et Numidae usque ad
flumen Mulucham sub Jugurtha erant, Mauris omnibus rex Bocchus
imperitabat, praeter nomen cetera ignarus[141] populi Romani, itemque
nobis neque bello neque pace antea cognitus. De Africa et ejus incolis ad
necessitudinem rei satis dictum.

[132] To _aliis--avidis_ supply _sollicitatis_.
[133] All three are cities in the territory of Carthage, which afterwards
became the province of Africa. Hippo with the surname of Diarrhytus,
(there being another town, Hippo Regius, on the coast of Numidia,) is
said to be the modern Bizerta; Hadrumetum, southeast of Carthage, and
Leptis, surnamed minor (there being another town, Leptis magna, more
to the east), are now in ruins.
[134] 'To their origin;' that is, to their mother country Phoenicia,
whence the settlers had come.
[135] The transition to Carthage by the conjunction _nam_ presupposes