Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Cirta

（Κίρτα), later Constantīna. Now Constantine; a city of the Massylii in Numidia, fifty Roman miles from the sea; the capital of Syphax, and of Masinissa and his successors. Its position on a height, surrounded by the river Ampsagas, made it almost impregnable, as the Romans found in the Jugurthine, and the French in the Algerian wars. It was restored by Constantine the Great, in honour of whom it received its later name. A Roman bridge and the remains of a Roman aqueduct still interest the archæologist, and in 1858 a fine statuette of a Wingless Victory was discovered here.