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Macae

  Macae (Makai), one of the aboriginal tribes of the Regio Syrtica, on the N. Coast of Libya, on the river Cinyps, according to Herodotus, who describes their customs (iv. 175; comp. Scyl. p. 46; Died. iii. 48; Plin. vi. 23, 26; Sil. iii. 275; Ptol. iv. 3. § 27, calls them Makaioi or Makai, Surtitai). Polybius mentions Maccaei in the Carthaginian army. (Pol. iii. 33.)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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