Note 282 — Chapter XIII · THE AFRICAN PROVINCES.

Ptolemaeus, iv. 3, 23, puts the Musulamii southward from the Aures, and it is only in accord therewith that they are called in Tacitus ii. 52, dwellers beside the steppe and neighbours of the Mauri; later they are settled to the north and west of Theveste (C. I. L. viii. 270, 10667). The Nattabutes dwelt according to Ptolemaeus l.c. southward of the Musulamii; subsequently we find them to the south of Calama (C. I. L. viii. 484). In like manner the Chellenses Numidae, between Lares and Althiburus (Eph. epigr. V. n. 639), and the conventus (civium Romanorum et) Numidarum qui Mascululae habitant (ib. n. 597), are probably Berber tribes transplanted from Numidia to the proconsular province.