There are the remains of an aqueduct near Curubis, or Curbis, at present altered into Gurbes; and Dr.Shaw read an inscription, which styles that city Colonia Fulvia.

The deacon Pontius (in Vit.Cyprian.c.

12) calls it "Apricum et competentem locum, hospitium pro voluntate secretum, et quicquid apponi eis ante promissum est, qui regnum et justitiam Dei quaerunt."] [Footnote 83: See Cyprian.Epistol.77, edit.

Fell.] [Footnote 84: Upon his conversion, he had sold those gardens for the benefit of the poor.

The indulgence of God (most probably the liberality of some Christian friend) restored them to Cyprian.