Tucca

1 Tucca, æ, m. , surnom ; not^t de M. Plotius Tucca [ami de Virgile qui publia lʼÉnéide avec Varius] : Hor. S. 1, 5, 40.

2 Tucca, æ, f. , ville dʼAfrique, dans la Zeugitane : Anton. || port de la Mauritanie Césarienne : Plin. 5, 21.

TUCCA

TUCCA(Τοῦκκα, Ptol. 4.2.28).

1.

A town of Mauretania Caesariensis. Ptolemy places it in the interior; but according to Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.2. s. 1) it was on the sea, at the mouth of the river Ampsaga. (Cf. Tab. Peut. ）

2.

A town in the district of Byzacium in Africa Proper. (Ptol. 4.3.32.) From inscriptions found in a village still called Duggait may be inferred that the place should be more correctly called Tugga. According to the Itin. Ant. (pp. 47, 49, 51) it lay 50 miles N. of Sufetula, the modern Sbaithaor Sfaitla, and also bore the name of Terebentina or Terebinthina, probably from its being situated in a neighbourhood abounding with the Terebinth tree. Tucca was a fortified town. (Procop. de Aed. 6.5.) It is probably the same place called Tuccabori by St. Augustin ( adv. Donat. 6.24.) (Cf. Wessel. ad, Itin. p. 48.)

3.

A town of Numidia. (Ptol. 4.3.29.) [T.H.D]

Tucca

Plotius. A friend of Horace and Vergil, to whom and Varius the latter bequeathed his unfinished works. See Vergilius.