It is easy to conceive how the inner city, within the walls of which the Byrsa was included, should, especially by way of contrast to the suburb of Magalia which had its separate circumvallation, be sometimes itself called Byrsa (App.Pun.

117; Nepos, ap.Serv.Aen.i.

368).
10.

Such is the height given by Appian, l.

c.; Diodorus gives the height, probably inclusive of the battlements, at 40 cubits or 60 feet.