in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa Propria, on the Mediterranean: a Tyrian colony, and older than Carthage, (Sil. Italicus); its name, according to Bochart, denoting old: reckoned second to it; but after the destruction of Carthage, became the capital and centre of all the Roman transactions in Africa, according to Strabo; who adds, that it stood on the same bay with Carthage, at one of the promontories called Apollonium, bounding the bay on the west side, the other to the east called Hermeia, being at Carthage. It became famous by the death of Cato, who thence was called Uticensis.