This spot was Nepheris, a town the position of which we are unfortunately unable to determine on account of the contradictory reports of Appiaii and Strabo, 2 and which, in spite of its evident importance, is not otherwise known.

In this place was stationed an officer of the name of Dio- genes, who commanded the army collected and formerly so well conducted by Hasdrubal.

3 Scipio sent a part of his army under Caius Lselius and the Numidian prince Gulussa against Nepheris, and conducted the siege him- self from his camp before Carthage.

The particulars of this siege are not well known.

The town and the camp of Diogenes fell into the hands of the besiegers in the course of the winter, and Appiaii relates that on this occa- sion seventy thousand people were slain in their flight, and ten thousand made prisoners, an act in which Gulussa, with his elephants and his Numidian horse, seems to have taken the greatest share.