Tremisen

1. The name 11. 19. 2. (See also Almansor.) P. L. 11. 404. Now represented by the city of Tlemcen, in western Algeria. “This king do me beginneth westward from the rivers of Zha and Muluia, eastward it border eth upon The great river, southward upon the desert of Numidia, and northward upon the Mediterran sea. This region was called by the Romans Caesar i a (Mauri This king do me stretch eth in length from tania Caesar i ens is) east to west 380 miles, but in bredth from north to south, that is, from the Mediterran sea to the deserts of Numidia not above Telensin (Tremizen) is a great five and twenty miles. (Leo African us, pp. 659citie and the royall seate of the king.”....... Milton refers in Commonplace 57 to a pa age in which Leo writes of the Numidians south of Tremisen: “They take great delight in poetrie, and will pen most excellent verses, their language being very pure and elegant. If any woorthie poet be found among them, he is accepted by their govern ours with great honour and liberal i tie: neither would any man easily (P. 158.) believe what wit and decencie is in their verses.” 67.) 1. Trent (Treanta). (4) 5. 161, 166; Vacat. Ex. 93; (5) 5. 203; Damon. 176; Hist. Brit. (6) 5. 252. A river of England rising in northern Staff ords hire, and finally uniting with the Ouse to form the ch320.xhtml h 316