TACAPE
TACAPE (
Τακάπη or
Κάπη,
Ptol. 4.3.11), a town in the Roman province of Africa, in the Regio Syrtica and in the innermost part of the Syrtis Minor.
The surrounding country is represented by Pliny (
16.27. s. 50, 18.22. s. 51) as exceedingly
[p. 2.1083]fruitful, but its harbour was bad. (Geogr. Nub.
Clim. iii. pt. ii. p. 87.)
In early times it was subject to Byzacium; but subsequently, as a Roman colony, belonged to the Regio Tripolitana, of which it was the most westerly town.
In its neighbourhood were warm mineral springs called the Aquae Tacapitanae (
Itin. Ant. p. 78), now
El-Hammah. (Cf.
Plin. Nat. 5.4. s. 3;
Itin. Ant. pp. 48, 50, 59, &c., where it is called Tacapae). Now
Gabs, Cabes, or
Quâbes. [
T.H.D]