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Of this people, the language aloneThe language alone] Lingua modò. has been altered by their intermarriages with the Numidians; their laws and customs continue for the most part Sidonian; which they have preserved with the greater case, through living at so great a distance from the king's dominions.From the king's dominions] Ab imperio regis, "Understand Masinissa's, Micipsa's, or Jugurtha's."Bernouf. Between them and the populous parts of Numidia lie vast and uncultivated deserts.
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Since the affairs of Leptis have led me into these regions, it will not be foreign to my subject to relate the noble and singular act of two Carthaginians, which the place has brought to my recollection.