[281]Valesius in Ammian.: adnot. i., xxviii.
[282]A.D. 366.
[283]Ammian. Marcell., xxviii.
[284]L. vi., C. iv., De Edific.
[285]A.D. 647-8.
[286]Apuleius, probably the most celebrated original thinker which Africa had ever produced up to his time, fixed his residence here after quitting his native place, Medaura, which has also the honour of having given birth to St. Augustine. His most celebrated work is The Golden Ass, an allegory in eleven books, one of which contains the beautiful story of Cupid and Psyche.—R. L. P.
CHAPTER XXXV.
BRUCE’S ROUTE CONTINUED — LEBIDAH — BENGAZI — TEUCHIRA — PTOLOMETA — SHIPWRECK AT BENGAZI — DEPARTURE FOR CANEA.
After some stay at Tripoli, I visited Lebidah, the ancient town of Leptis Magna, three days’ journey from Tripoli, where there are a great extent of ruins, but all in bad taste; chiefly done in the time of Aurelian—indeed, very bad.