AUTHOR’S NOTE
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AUTHOR’S NOTEThuburbo Maius in Tunisia was an ancient Phoenician City that sided with Carthage in the final Punic War against the powerful Roman Empire.
The City was taxed, but not demolished by Scipio.
The town was chosen in 27 B.C. for one of Octavius’s Colonies of Veterans.
It declined in the third century A. D. and was revived in the fourth century by Constantine II.
The Respublica Fenix fell victim to the Vandals and was abandoned in Byzantine times.
It was only rediscovered in 1875 and the very fine ruins, which thrilled me, were unearthed and re-erected only in 1912.
As I sat looking at the magnificent Temple of Jupiter with its large columns and long flight of steps, this story came into my mind.
It fell into place, as my stories always do, so that now the Temple and the City that was once a busy hubbub of people will always live in my memory.
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