THENAE
THENAE (
Θεναί), a maritime city of Byzacium in Africa Proper, at the mouth of a small river which fell into the Syrtis Minor, and 216 miles SE. of Carthage. (
Plin. Nat. 5.4. s. 3.) By Strabo it is called
ἡ Θένα (xvii. p. 831), and by Ptolemy
Θαίνα, or
Θέαιναι (1.15.2, 4.3.11).
At a later period it became a Roman colony with the name of Aelia Augusta Mercurialis (Gruter,
Inscr. p. 363; cf.
Itin. Ant. p. 59, also pp. 46, 47, 48, 57). Now
Thaini, or
Têny. [
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