BRACHO´DES
BRACHO´DES (
Βραχώδης ἄκρα,
Ptol. 4.3.10), a promontory on the E. coast of Byzacium, in N. Africa, forming the N. headland of the Lesser Syrtis.
It is called Ammonis (
ἄκρα Ἄμμωνος Βαλίθωνος by Strabo, who mentions the tunny-fisheries off it (xvii. p. 834).
It was called Caput Vada (
Καπούτβαδα) in the time of Justinian, who built upon it a town of the same name, in memory of the landing of Belisarius in the Vandalic War (Procop.
Aed. 6.6); and it still retains the name
Kapoudia, with the ruins of the city. (Shaw,
Travels, p. 101; Barth,
Wanderungen, pp. 176, 190.)
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