Ruspinum

RUSPI´NUM(Ῥουσπῖνον, Strab. 17. p. 831; Ruspina, Auct. B. Afr. 6; Plin. Nat. 5.3; Peut. Tab.), a town of Africa Proper, where Caesar defeated Scipio, and which he afterwards made his position while waiting for reinforcements. It is probably the same place as the THERMAEof the Coast-describer (Stadiasm. § 114, ed. Müller), near the ruins of Leptis Parva.