Thala

• an important town of Numidia, Sall. J. 75, 1 sq.; Tac. A. 3, 21; Flor. 3, 1.

THALA (γάλα, Strab. 17. p. 831), an important town of Numidia, with a treasury and arsenal. (Sall. J. 75, 77, 80, 89; Tac. Ann. 3.21; Flor. iii. l.) It is probably identical with Telepte (Τελεπτή, Procop. de Aed. 6.6), a fortified town of Numidia, lying to the NW. of Capsa, and from which there was a road to Tacape on the Syrtis Minor (Itin. Ant. p. 77). Shaw (Trav. vol. 1. p. 288, seq.) takes Ferreanah, both from its ruins and its situation, to have been the ancient Thala or Telepte (cf. Manner, 10.2. p. 321), but Lapie seeks it at Haouch-el-Khima.

THALA (τὸ Θάλα ὄρος, Ptol. 4.6. § § 12, 14, 16), a mountain in the interior of Libya, near which dwelt a tribe of the same name (Θάλαι, Ptol. 4.6.21).

(Θάλα). A great city of Numidia, mentioned by Sallust and other writers, and probably identical with Telepté or Thelepte, a city in the south of Numidia, seventy-one Roman miles northwest of Capsa.