[393] Ibid., Platea Nova.
[394] Appian, viii, 133 (from Diod. Sic., xi, 26).
[395] Inferred from Tacitus, Hist., iv, 38, and Procopius, De Bel. Vand., i, 20; see Dureau de la Malle, op. cit.
[396] Expos. Tot. Mund. (Müller).
[397] Ibid. (two versions); Augustine, Confes., vi, 9.
[398] Apuleius, Florid., 18.
[399] Generally see Salvian, op. cit., vii, 16. The remains of the Circus are still in evidence; see Babelon, op. cit.
[400] Much of it still remains; figured in Babelon (op. cit.) and Davis's Carthage, etc., London, 1868, with other Roman ruins of the region. The populousness of Africa is indicated by the amphitheatre of Tipdrus (100 miles south of Carthage), capital of Byzacium, which still exists in great part. It was second only to the Coliseum.
[401] Prosper Tiro, Chron. (424). Diocletian, however, carried out extensive works here, part of which may have been protective; Aurel. Victor, in Vita.
[402] Tacitus, Hist., iv, 38, etc. In the time of Vespasian it was feared that a revolt in Africa would lead to the capital being starved out.