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THAPSOS (Ancient city) LIBYA
Thapsus (Thapsos, Ptol. iv. 3. § 10), a maritime city of Byzacium,
in Africa Propria. It lay on a salt lake, which, according to Shaw (Trav. p. 99),
still exists, and on a point of land 80 stadia distant from the opposite island
of Lopadussa. Thapsus was strongly fortified and celebrated for Caesar's victory
over the Pompeians, B.C. 46. (Hirt. B. Af. 28, seq.) Shaw (l. c.) identifies it
with the present Demass, where its ruins are still visible. (Cf. Strabo, xvii,
pp. 831, 834; Liv. xxxiii. 48; Plin. v. 4. s. 3, &c.)
A city on the eastern coast of Byzacena, in Africa Propria. Here Caesar finally defeated the army of Pompey and ended the Civil War.
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