Baricaza
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Baricaza was an Arabian town mentioned by Pliny[1].
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Barik = Baricaza (Pliny.vi.34)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Troglodytice....Some writers place even beyond this, upon the shore, one town of Ethiopia, called Baricaza. Juba will have it that at the Promontory of Mossylum23 the Atlantic Sea begins, and that with a north-west wind24 we may sail past his native country, the Mauritanias, and arrive at Gades.
23 Under the impression entertained by the ancients, that the southern progress of the coast of Africa stopped short here, and that it began at this point to trend away gradually to the north-west.
24 Coro. Salmasius seems with justice, notwithstanding the censures of Hardouin, to have found considerable difficulty in this passage. If it is Pliny's meaning that by sea round the south of the Promontory of Mossylum there is a passage to the extreme north-western point of Africa, it is pretty clear that it is not by the aid of a north-west wind that it could be reached. "Euro," "with a south-east wind," has been very properly suggested.