GAETULIA

GAETULIA
GAETULIA
regio Libyae interioris, Garamantibus finitima, cuius incolae Gaetuli. Lucan. Civ. Bell. l. 4. v. 677.
Autololes Numidaeque vagl, semperque paratue
Inculto Gaetulus equo.
Sil. Ital. Punic. Bell. l. 3. v. 287. et seqq.
Vos quoque desertis in castra mapalibus itis
Misceri gregibus Gaetuli assueta ferarum,
Indomitisque loqui, et sedare leonibus iras:
Nulla domus, plaustris habitant, migrare per arvae
Mos atque errantes circumvectare penates.
Virg. Aen. l. 4. v. 40.
Hinc Gaetulae urbes, genus insuperabile bello.
Sallust. in bello Iug. c. 15. Africam initio habuêre Gaetuli, et Libyes, asperi, incultique, queis cibus erat caro ferina atque humi pabulum, uti pecoribus. Hi neque moribus, neque lege, aut imperio cuiusquam regebantur: vagi, palantes, quas nox coegerat, sedes habebant. Leonibus abundabat haec regio ubi hodie Biledulgerid, Regnum Terga etc. Virg. Aen. l. 5. v. 351.
——— tergum Gaetuli immane leonis.
Horat. Carm. l. 3. Od. 20. Initio
Non vides quanto moveas periclo
Pyrrho Gaetulae catulos teaenae.
In hanc usqueve regionem arma sua olim extendêrunt Romani. Nic. Lloyd. Sallust. de B. I. Plin. l. 5. c. 1. Cluv. Intr. Geogr. l. 6. Sanson.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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