aurasius

Updated: June 6, 2025

The victorious eunuch advanced thirteen days journey from Carthage, to besiege Mount Aurasius, the citadel, and at the same time the garden, of Numidia.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

But a generous band of four hundred obliged the mariners, when they were in sight of the Isle of Lesbos, to alter their course: they touched on Peloponnesus, ran ashore on a desert coast of Africa, and boldly erected, on Mount Aurasius, the standard of independence and revolt.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

A sharp perpendicular rock rises above the level of the mountain, where the African princes deposited their wives and treasure; and a proverb is familiar to the Arabs, that the man may eat fire who dares to attack the craggy cliffs and inhospitable natives of Mount Aurasius.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4