the ellipsis of some such sentiment as--'I only meant to mention
these Phoenician settlements on the African coast, _for_ it is well
known that Carthage also was a settlement of the Phoenicians.'
[136] _Secundo mari_, 'along the sea,' is said according to the analogy
of _secundo flumine_ (see Caes. _Bell. Gall._ vii. 58) _secundo
flumine ad Lutetiam iter facere coepit_. The sea has indeed no
current like a river, but the direction is determined by the person
travelling on the coast, and in this case it is the direction from
east to west. _Theraei_ are the inhabitants of the island of Thera,
in the Greek Archipelago, south of Peloponnesus, whence the first
Greek settlers at Cyrene proceeded in B. C. 631, under the leadership
of Battus. Respecting the Greek genitive _on_, instead of _orum_, see
Zumpt, S 52, 1.
[137] _Syrtis major_ and _Syrtis minor_ are two large sandbanks near the
coast of Africa between Cyrene and Carthage. They were very
dangerous to navigation, and between them lay the route to Leptis
magna, a city of considerable importance. Compare chap. 78, where
Sallust describes these sandbanks and the bays named after them.
[138] The origin of the name of this place is stated by Sallust, chap.
79. As it was situated above the great, that is, the eastern Syrtis,
it is clear that _deinde_ is used somewhat vaguely, since only the
great Syrtis, but not the town of Leptis and the small Syrtis,
precede the place Arae Philaenon in the order of succession.
[139] 'Above Numidia;' that is, southward, towards the inland, the
coast being always, or at least being always conceived to be, lower
than the inland districts.
[140] _Novissime_, 'latterly;' that is, at the beginning of the third
Punic war, the result of which was, that Carthage and its territory
became a Roman province.
[141] _Cetera ignarus_, 'otherwise unknown.' Compare p. 87, note 4 [note