Utĭca

, now Satcor , a celebrated city of Africa, on the coast of the Mediterranean, on the same bay as Carthage, founded by a Tyrian colony above 287 years before Carthage. It had a large and commodious harbour, and it became the metropolis of Africa, after the destruction of Carthage in the third Punic war, and the Romans granted it all the lands situate between Hippo and Carthage. It is celebrated for the death of Cato, who from thence is called Uticensis , or of Utica. Strabo , bk. 17 .— Lucan , bk. 6 , li. 306 .— Justin , bk. 18 , ch. 4 .— Pliny , bk. 16 , ch. 40 .— Livy , bk. 25 , ch. 31 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 3 , li. 242 .— Horace , bk. 1 , ltr. 20 , li. 513 .