Note 15 — Chapter II
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Or rather of a female relation of Consul Tully, to whom the work in question is attributed.
It is observed in the same work, “When this arch was built, there were few habitations nearer this place than Lebida, the Leptis Magna of the ancients;” and farther on, “the Romans strayed to the spot where Tripoly now stands, to hunt wild beasts; and under this arch they found a welcome retreat from the burning rays of the sun.” But the arch was erected after the middle of the second century; and both Sabrata and Oea were extant in the time of Pliny, who flourished in the middle of the first,—the conclusion is obvious.