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CU´RUBIS

CU´RUBIS (Κουραβίς Κούροβις, Ptol. 4.3.8; Itin. Ant. pp. 56, 57, 493; Tab. Peut.: Kurbah), a city on the E. coast of Zeugitana, in Africa Proper, between Clypea and Neapolis, 16 M. P. north of the latter. According to Pliny (5.3) it was a free city, but an inscription found on the spot designates it a colony, COL. FULVIA. CURUBIS. (Shaw, Travels &c., p. 90.) [P.S] [p. 1.721]

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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.3
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 4.3
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