HADRUMETUM, or ADRUMETUM, and ADRUMETUS, in Ancient Geography, a city and seaport on the coast of Africa Proper. It was a Phœnician colony of more ancient date than Carthage itself, to which it afterwards became subject. The adjoining country was of amazing fertility, and was sheltered from the sands of the desert by an amphitheatre of hills. The town itself was strongly fortified. Hannibal, when recalled from Italy, passed through it on his way to the scene of his last battle at Zama. Like most cities of Northern Africa, Hadrumetum suffered severely at the hands of the Vandals, but it was afterwards restored by Justinian, in whose honour it was called Justiniana or Justinianopolis. Considerable doubts have been entertained as to its site, but modern geographers have identified it with Susa, where extensive and splendid ruins were seen and described by the Arab geographer, Abu Behri of Cordova. Traces of these ruins were observed by the African traveller Barth, who describes them in his Wanderings among the Coastlands of Carthage and Cyrene. See also Shaw's Travels in Barbary.
HÆMOPTYSIS (αἷμα, blood, πτέω, to spit), the coughing up of blood from the lungs. Its florid colour, frothiness, and comparatively small quantity, serve to distinguish it from blood coming from the stomach, which is generally darkened by admixture with the gastric juice, &c.