"Mauritania" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the person of the fugitive king, as an ornament to his triumph and the pledge of victory. The tedious task was delegated to a Teutonic chief named Pharas, who for three months beleaguered the impregnable hill on the confines of Mauritania, on the summit of which was the fortress in which Gelimer had taken refuge. The incidents which marked his final surrender have been often described. He who had been of late the daintily-living lord of Africa found life hard indeed ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin
... The sea ports of these nations are Adrumetis and Zuges, and their largest town is Catharina. The country of Numidia has to the east the Syrtes Minores and the salt mere formerly mentioned, to the north the Mediterranean, to the west Mauritania, and to the south the hills of Uzera, and the mountains which extend to Ethiopia, one way, and the Mauritanian sea on the other side. To the east is Numidia, to the north the Mediterranean, to the west the ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... shall I turn myself for assistance?' but none of the manuscripts has that reading in this passage. [101] He alludes to the nations and kings who were still independent and had not yet been incorporated with the Roman empire, especially the kings of Syria and Egypt, and perhaps also the king of Mauritania. [102] Sallust might have said hujus imperii, but he prefers the dative, which is a dativus incommodi. [103] Secundus, 'favourable,' according to its derivation from sequor, is especially used of a favourable wind, but also in the general sense of 'assisting,' or 'devoted to.' [104] Fatigare, ...
— De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius)
... Chaldaeam iungitur Mesopotamia, et minor Armenia, et velut ad Austrum eius AEthiopia, Mauritania, Lybia alta et bassa, et Nubia. [Sidenote: Extensio Imperij Grand Can.] Excepto ergo duntaxat districtu Imperij Persiae, et potestate Soldani, omnes saepe pertractatae terrae, regiones, regna et Insulae descendendo tam par Aquilonem, quam ad Austrum a prouincia ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 9 - Asia, Part 2 • Richard Hakluyt |
