Thapsus

He gave them a great defeat at Thapsus, and the remnant took refuge in the city of Utica, whither Cæsar followed them.

I sail past Pantagias' mouth with its living stone, the Megarian bay, and low-lying Thapsus.

Thapsus was situated on a kind of peninsula, south of Hadrumetum, as Dion Cassius states.

Cæsar occupied this approach to Thapsus, and then formed his lines about the town in the form of a crescent.

Name a play upon Thapsia, so called from the island of Thapsus.