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It was through the medium of the Hellenes that the Cannanite race became known to the Romans, for, as we have already seen, they always designated it by its Greek name; but the fact that they did not borrow from the Greeks either the name for the city of Carthage or the national name of the -Afri-, and the circumstance that among the earlier Romans Tyrian wares were designated by the adjective -Sarranus-, which in like manner precludes the idea of Greek intervention, demonstrate what the treaties of a later period concur in proving the direct commercial intercourse anciently subsisting between Latium and Carthage.
It was through the medium of the Hellenes that the Cannanite race became known to the Romans, for, as we have already seen, they always designated it by its Greek name; but the fact that they did not borrow from the Greeks either the name for the city of Carthage or the national name of the -Afri-, and the circumstance that among the earlier Romans Tyrian wares were designated by the adjective -Sarranus-, which in like manner precludes the idea of Greek intervention, demonstrate what the treaties of a later period concur in proving the direct commercial intercourse anciently subsisting between Latium and Carthage.
The first is represented by the Afri, Numidians, and Moors, who inhabited the coast region from East to West. These were early subjected to alien influences, the greatest of which, before the coming of the Roman, was the advent of the Semite. The second is shown by the vast aggregate of tribes which form a curve along the south from the ocean to the Cyrenaica.
Huc et Alexandri diversa feruntur ab urbe Regia et Antiochi. Zeus haec freta plurima transit His Arabes, Indi, Siculi nascuntur et Afri. Haec genus est totum prope nobilitata per orbem, Et mercanda ferens, et amans mercata referre.” From Egypt and from Antioch they land, Their precious cargoes on th’ Italian strand. Scathless Amalfi’s navies penetrate The distant ports of every Paynim state.
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