ilcar, because they have heard his prayer"
(_Corp. inscr. semit._ vol. i. pp. 276 f.; Audollent, _Carth. Rom._ p.
369).

Baal-Ammon or Moloch, the great god of all Libya, is represented as an
old man with ram's horns on his forehead; the ram is frequently found
with his statues. He appears also with a scythe in his hand ("_falcem
ferens senex pingitur_." St Cyprian, _De idol. vanit._ 11). At
Carthage children were sacrificed to him, and in his temple there was
a colossal bronze statue in the arms of which were placed the children
who were to be sacrificed (Diod. Sic. xx. 14; Justin xviii. 6, xix. 1;
Plut. _De superstit._ 13, _De sera num. vindic._ 6.). The children
slipped one by one from the arms into a furnace amid the plaudits of
fanatical worshippers. These sacrifices persisted even under Roman
rule; Tertullian states that even in his time they took place in
secret (_Apolog._ cix.; cf. Delattre, "Inscript. de Carth.," in
_Bulletin epigraphique_, iv. p. 317; Audollent, op. cit. p. 398).

(4) _Roman Period._--In 122 B.C., twenty-four years after the
destruction of the city by Scipio Aemilianus, the Roman senate, on the
proposal of Rubrius, decided to plant a Latin colony on the site. C.
Gracchus and Fulvius Flaccus were entrusted with the foundation of the
new city, which was christened _Colonia Junonia_, and placed under the
protection of Juno Caelestis, the new name for the Punic Tanit. But its
prosperity was obstructed both by unpropitious omens and by the very
recollection of the ancient feud, and fifty years later Marius,
proscribed by Sulla, found the ruins practically deserted. In the
neighbourhood were the scattered remnants of the old Punic population,
who, according to Athenaeus (_Deipnosoph._ v. 50), had actually had the
assurance to send ambassadors to Mithradates the Great assuring him of
their support against Rome. Ultimately M. Minucius Rufus passed a law
abrogating that of 122 and suppressing the _Colonia Junonia_.

Julius Caesar, pursuing the lost supporters of Pompey, encamped on the
ruins of the city, and there, according to tradition, had a dream which
induced him to re-establish the abandoned colony. Returning to Rome, he
despatched thither the poor citizens who were demanding land from him.
Later on Augustus sent new colonists, and, henceforward, the machinery
of administration was regularly centred there (Appian viii. 136; Dio
Cass. lxxx. 1; Audollent, op. cit. p.