After I had written my letter Sicca brought me a dispatch and message from you.
The hilly country through which he had just conducted his legions, was that which lay between the great towns of Sicca and Zama.
The theatre of his campaign was probably to be the territory about the plateau of Vaga and the Great Plains, its ultimate prizes perhaps were to be the important Numidian towns of Sicca Veneria and Zama Regia to the south.
One is that Sicca in its neighbourhood veered round to the Romans after the battle (Sall.
Sicca is the modern El Kef, but is still called by its inhabitants by its old name of Sicca Veneria (Schak Benar), The name Veneria was derived from a temple of the Punic Aphrodite (cf.
But even the upper waters of the Tusca belonged to Numidia, as did the towns of Vaga, Sicca Veneria and Zama Regia.
By this route he would reach the high plateaux, which command on the south-east the plains of Sicca and Zama, on the north-west those of Naraggara and Thagaste, on the south those of Thala and Theveste.
To reach the neighbourhood of Sicca it was necessary to turn to the south-west and follow for a time the upward course of the river Muthul (the Wäd Mellag).
Sicca was already his, for it had been the first of the towns to throw off its allegiance to Jugurtha after the battle on the Muthul had dissipated the Numidian army.
He had hoped perhaps to find the division in the town, to turn the tide of feeling in Sicca by his presence, and to see the ablest of his opponents trapped within the walls.
Such additions as Vaga and Siccaprobably belong to the settlement of 46 B.
Although Sicca was a sacred town it could not hold such a multitude; the temple alone, with its appurtenances, occupied half of it.
It had accomplished the journey from Sicca in three days, in order to reach Carthage and wholly exterminate it.
Day dawned; the people of Siccawere roused, and stirring in the streets.
A bond to be granted me upon the terms of the second loan, bearing date from 1st October, for one lac of sicca rupees.
A bond to be granted me upon the terms of the first loan, bearing date from the 2d October, for one lac of sicca rupees.
A bond to be granted me upon the terms of the first loan, bearing date from 1st October, for one lac of sicca rupees.
The Roman colony of Sicca Veneria appears from the character of its worship of Venus (Val.
It occupies the site of the Roman colony of Sicca Veneria, and is built on the steep slope of a rock in a mountainous region through which flows the Mellegue, an affluent of the Mejerda.
Sicca is surprised that Silius has changed his mind.
Sicca has written to me in detail about Silius, and says he has reported the matter to you; and you say the same in your letter.
To Dolabella I have written carefully, as you advise: and I have written myself to Sicca too.
So I got to Siccaon the 24th, and here I am quite at home.
But solitude and retirement are my proper sphere: and it is because Sicca can content himself with that, that I am the more eager for his visit.
So I will touch on it lightly without any opprobrium for Sicca and Septimia, and only let our children's Footnote 319: Cf.
According to his letter Sicca is coming to me on the 23rd, even if he has not settled anything with A.
As to the business with Silius, I know the terms well enough, but I expect to hear full details from Sicca to-day.
About Silius I have learned nothing more from Sicca now he is here than from his letter, for he had written quite fully.
Show me sicca man and I'll show you one who ends by having no friends at all--one who gets all sides down upon him, because he was so afraid of making enemies that he did nothing to make himself freinds.
Wull, thanks to his "meanness," was always able to find the siller for sicca loan.
It wasna till after I'd been in America that I made sae many records, but I'd made enough at lime for some of my songs tae become popular, and so it wasna quite sicca novelty as I'd thought it micht be for them to hear me.
If a man may not take advantage of sicca chance as that he needs no better chance again than a rope around his neck with a stone tied to it and a drop into the Firth o' Forth!
Sicca one can ne'er meet the real call when it comes; he's bankrupt in the emergency.
It was just sicca they my agent and the managers and a' had thocht would stand between me and winning a success in London.
They'll ca' him a woman hater, when the puir laddie's nae sicca thing.
The fixed exchange of sicca rupees, is two hundred and ten and a half for one hundred Spanish dollars.
He was born at Sicca in Numidia, and chiefly followed Soranus.
If the spectator now takes his stand, not in Sicca itself, but about a quarter of a mile to the south-east, on the hill or knoll on which was placed the cottage of Agellius, the city itself will enter into the picture.
The Roman military force at Sicca was not more than a century of men; the greater number were at this moment at the great gate, waiting for the mob; a few, in parties of three and four, were patrolling the city.
And at Sicca the Roman officials, as far as ever they dared, seemed to act on this view.
One-half, at least, of the supply of Sicca is cut off.
They were about the ages of seven and eight when their father died, and they fell under the guardianship of their uncle, whose residence at Sicca had been one of the reasons which determined Strabo to settle there.
Have you come all the way from Sicca to give the alarm to mere atheists and magic-mongers?
Carthage is quite as dangerous,” answered Cæcilius, “and Sicca is more central.
Though I am a stranger,” continued Cæcilius, “I know more of the neighbourhood of Sicca than you who are a native.
Away with you both, in the name of the Suffetes of Sicca and all the magistracy!
His uncle began by telling him that he was a government prisoner, but that he hoped by his influence in high places to get him off and out of Sicca without any prejudice to his honour.
These giants, then, got possession of Callista, and she entered Sicca upon the shoulder of one of them, who danced in with no greater inconvenience than if he was carrying on it a basket of flowers, or a box of millinery.
You are the only man inSicca who needs to ask the question.
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