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Headword:
Aphrikanos
Adler number: alpha,4648
Translated headword: Africanus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. The name is connected with] Carthage, which is called both
Africa and Bursa,[1] having ruled the Libyan people dwelling in the area for 700 years after the first resettlement, was destroyed.[2] Scipio [
Aemilianus] took the same surname Africanus from his grandfather Scipio Africanus and was then so called because of his virtue and the similarity of their successes.[3]
Aphrikanos: Karchêdôn, hê kai Aphrikê kai Bursa legomenê, meta ton prôton anoikismon kratêsasa etê ps# tôn perioikôn Libuôn anêirêto. Skipiôn de autên Skipiôni tôi Aphrikanôi pappôi labôn epiklên Aphrikanos to enteuthen dia te tên aretên kai to tôn katorthômatôn homoiotropon epônomasthê.
Notes:
cf. Eutropius,
Breviarium 4.12.
[1] See also
beta 593 (end) and
kappa 444, cf.
kappa 445. None of these entries actually explain the name Bursa ('Hide'). For that, one must turn to (e.g.) Appian,
Libyca 3-5: Bursa, the earliest citadel at Carthage, was allowed to occupy as much land as could be encompassed by the hide of a bull (a niggardly allocation, evaded by cutting it into strips).
[2] In 146 BCE. The calculation is evidently made from (trad.) 814/3, when Carthage was founded by a "resettlement" from Tyre (in Phoenicia).
[3] For Scipio cf.
sigma 616, and generally (on both him and his grandfather) OCD(4) pp.381-2.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 June 2001@10:53:46.
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