Graham, Alexander: Roman Africa: an outline of the history of the Roman occupation of North Africa ; based chiefly upon inscriptions and monumental remains in that country (London [u.a.], 1902)

as their ancestors did some three thousand years ago.1 The
Numidian, the Moor, and the Getulian are there also, cultivating
their olives in the land of their forefathers, tending their sheep
on the broad plains of the Metidja or Chelif, or moving silently
from place to place, like true sons of the Desert.

Reflections such as these, quickened by personal acquaint-
ance with the undying memorials of a great people, give an
interest to their achievements in every part of an old-world
Empire. It is good for us, as citizens of a later Empire, enjoy-
ing inestimable privileges inseparable from a far higher range
of civilisation, to think over these things, in a spirit of gratitude
to the Roman world for services rendered in the cause of human
progress. The civilising work of the Romans in this fair land
of North Africa will always be a pleasant memory, and will
provide for generations to come an inexhaustible field for study
and research.

1 The old Carthaginian idiom has completely disappeared, but the Libyan or
Berber dialect is still spoken by some of the Desert tribes, little altered, though with
the addition of many words and expressions that are either Latin or Neo-Punic.
(M. J. Toutain, Les Cites Ro/naines de la Timisie.)