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MIKRI LEPTIS (Ancient city) TUNISIA
Leptis1 (Liv. xxxiv. 62; Caes. B.C. ii. 38; Hirt.
Bell. Afr. 6, 7, 9, 62; Mela, i. 7. § 2; Plin. v. 4. s. 3), also called by later
writers, Leptis Minor or Parva (Leptis he mikra, Ptol. iv. 3. § 10; Leptiminus
or Lepte Minus, Itin. Ant. p. 58; Tab. Peut.; Geogr. Rav. iii. 5 v. 5: Eth Leptitani:
Lemta, Ru.), a city on the coast of Byzacium, just within the SE. headland. of
the Sinus Neapolitanus, 18 M.P. SE. of Hadrumetum, and 33 M.P. NE. of Thysdrus,
and one of the most flourishing of the Phoenician colonies on that coast, notwithstanding
the epithet Parva, which is merely used by late writers to distinguish it from
the still more important city of Leptis Magna It was a colony of Tyre (Sall. Jug.
19; Plin. l. c.), and, under the. Carthaginians, it was the most important place
in the wealthy district of Emporiae and its wealth was such that it paid to Carthage
the daily tribute of a Euboic talent. (Liv. l. c.) Under the Romans it was a libera
civitas, at least in Pliny's time: whether it became a colony afterwards depends
on the question, whether the coins bearing the name of Leptis belong to this city
or to Leptis Magna. Its ruins, though interesting, are of no great extent. (Shaw,
Travels, p. 109; Barth, Wanderungen, &c. p. 161.)
1 Derived from a Phoenician word signifying a naval station.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Leptis Minor or Parva, usually called simply Leptis, a Phoenician colony on the coast of Byzacium in North Africa.
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