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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...(Cat. 5, 'hortari... rehe says 'the rest, and then adds petere'). 'most, ' which is more emphatic. asperitatem That is, 'locorum, ' aoro--opulentior 'Richer in or it may refer to 'nationes' also, land' means richer in good land, for he says (c. 18), "Gaetuli et LiHe adds that the eastern part, Ad-byes, asperi incultique." herbal's share, contained the better in partem tertiam 'Have placed ports (' portuosior') and more towns Africa in the third part;' of course perhaps ('aedificiis').--'possedit;' he means 'have made Africa the 'took possession of.' Jacobs remarks third part.' Kritz and Jacobs have that this is from the verb ' possidere, ' 'in parte tertia.'--'pauci tantumof which we have the form' possidat' modo;' Varro, de Ling. Lat. v. 6, Asiam et Europam esse, sed Africam in Europa. Ea finis habet ab occidente fretum nostri maris et Oceani, ab ortn solis declivem latitudinem, quem locum Catabathmon incolae appellant. Mare saevum, importuosum, ager frugum fertilis, bonus pecori, arbore infecundus, coelo terraque penuria aquarum. Genus hominum salubri corpore, velox, patiens laborum; plerosque senectus dissolvit, nisi qui ferro aut bestiis interiere; nam morbus haud saepe quemquam superat; ad hoc malefici generis pluruma animalia. Sed qui mortales initio Africam habuerint, quique postea accesserint, aut quomodo inter se permixti sint, quamquam ab ea fama quae plerosque obtinet divorsum est, tamen ut ex libris Punicis, qui regis Hiempsalis dicebantur, interpretatum nobis est, utique rem sese habere cultores ejus terrae putant, quam paucissumis dicam. Ceterum fides ejus rei penes auctores erit. quoted by Jacobs, is one of those who make only two divisions of the world, as Lucan also does in his Pharsalia (ix. 411), and he also...