Tacape

TACAPE(Τακάπηor 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 (Plin. Nat. 16.27. s. 50, 18.22. s. 51) as exceedingly fruitful, but its harbour was bad. (Geogr. Nub. Clim. iii. pt. 2. 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.

(Τακάπη). Now Khabs or Gabes; a city of North Africa, in the Regio Syrtica, at the innermost angle of the Syrtis Minor, to which the modern town gives its name.