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KYRINAIKI (Ancient country) LIBYA
Asbystae (Asbustai, Herod. iv. 170, 171; Lycophr. Alex. 895; Asbutai,
Ptol. iv. 4. § 10), a Libyan tribe, in the inland parts of Cyrenaica, S. of Cyrene,
and W. of the Giligammae; distinguished above the other Libyan tribes for their
skill in the use of four-horsed chariots. (Herod. l. c.) Dionysius Periegetes
(211) names them next to the Nasamones, inland (mesepeiroi). Pliny also places
them next to the Nasamones, but apparently to the W. of them (v. 5). Ptolemy's
position for them, E. of the mountains overhanging the Gardens of the Hesperides,
agrees well enough with that of Herodotus. Stephanus Byzantinus mentions a city
of Libya, named Asbysta (Asbusta, Eth. Asbustes), and quotes the following line
from Callimachus:
hoie te Tritonos eph hudasin Asbustao:
- where the mention of the Triton is not at all inconsistent with the position
of the Asbystae, as deter-mined by the other writers ; for the Triton is frequently
placed near the Gardens of the Hesperides, on the W. coast of Cyrenaica.
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Auschisae (Auschisai, Herod. iv. 171; Auschitai, Apollod. ap. Steph.
B.; Auchisai, Diod. Sic. iii. 42; Auchitai, Ptol. iv. 5. § 21; Auchetai, Nonn.
Dionys. xiii. 375), a Libyan people in Cyrenaica, W. of the Asbystae extending
S. of Barca as far W. as the Hesperides (aft. Berenice), on the coast of the Greater
Syrtis. Ptolemy alone places them in Marmarica.
There are some exceedingly interesting remains of forts, of an extremely
ancient style of building, which are fully described by Barth, who regards them
as works of the Auschisae, and fortifies his opinion by the statement of Pliny
(iv. 1), that it was the common custom of the Libyan tribes to build forts. (Beechey,
Proceedings of the Expedition to explore the N. coast of Africa, pp. 251, 252;
Barth, Wanderungen, &c. p. 354.)
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LIBYA (Country) NORTH AFRICA
Tribe of Libyan nomads.
A Libyan people near Cyrene, story of their passage of the Libyan desert, their customs.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 8/8/2001: 21 for Nasamones, 14 for Atlantes,10 for Nasamonians.
Adyimachidae (Adurmachidai), a people of N. Africa, mentioned by Herodotus as the first Libyan people W. of Egypt. (Herod. iv. 168.) Their extent was from the frontier of Egypt (that is, according to Herodotus, from the Sinus Plinthinetes (ii. 6), but according to Scylax (p. 44, Hudson), from the Canopic mouth of the Nile), to the harbour of Plynos, near the Catabathmus Major. Herodotus distinguishes them from the other Libyan tribes in the E. of N. Africa, who were chiefly nomade (iv. 191), by saying that their manners and customs resembled those of the Egyptians (iv. 168). He also mentions some remarkable usages which prevailed amongst them (l. c.). At a later period they are found further to the S., in the interior of Marmarica. (Ptol.; Plin. v. 6; Sil. Ital. iii. 278, foll., ix. 223, foll.)
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Ausences (Auseis), a Libyan people, in North Africa, dwelling about
the lake Tritonis at the bottom of the Lesser Syrtis, next to the Machlyes. The
Machlyes were on the S. side of the lake, and the Ausenses on the N. (E. and W.
respectively, according to the view of Herodotus), the river Triton being the
boundary between them: the latter people, therefore, were in the S. of the district
afterwards called Byzacena. (Herod. iv. 180.) Herodotus makes them the last of
the nomade peoples towards the W., their neighbours on that side, the Maxyes being
an agricultural people. (Herod. iv. 191: it is hardly necessary to notice Rennell's
allusion to, and obviously correct solution of, an inconsistency which the hypercritic
may fancy between this passage and c. 186: Rennell, Geog.to Herod. vol. ii. p.
302.) The Machlyes, says Herodotus, wear the hair on the back of the head, but
the Ausenses on the front. The Ausenses celebrated a yearly festival of Athena,
whom they claimed as their native goddess, in which their virgins were divided
into two parties, which fought each other with stones and clubs, and those who
died of their wounds were esteemed not true virgins. The combat was preceded by
a procession, in which the most beautiful of the virgins was decorated with a
Corinthian helmet and a full suit of Grecian armour, and was drawn in a chariot
round the lake. (Comp. Mela, i. 7.)
The Ausenses are supposed by Pacho (Voyage dans la Marnarique, &c.)
to be the same people as the Ausurii, who are mentioned by Synesius as devastating
Cyrenaica in the 6th century. (Bahr, ad Herod. l. c.)
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Autololes or Autololae (Autolalai, Ptol. iv. 6. § 17; common reading
Autolatai), a Gaetulian people on the W. coast of Africa, in the Libya Interior
of Ptolemy, both N. and S. of the Atlas, with a city Autolala, or Autolalae (Autolala,
Autolalai). This city is one of Ptolemy's points of astronomical observation,
having the longest day 13 1/2 hrs., being distant 3 1/2 hrs. W. of Alexandreia,
and having the sun vertical once a year, at the time of the winter solstice. (Ptol.
iv. 6. § 24; viii. 16. § 4.) Reichard takes it for the modern Agulon, or Aquilon.
(Kleine Geogr. Schriften, p. 506.) All writers, except Ptolemy, call the people
Autololes. (Plin. v. 1; Solin. 24; Lucan. Phars. iv. 677; Sil. Ital. iii. 306;
Claudian. Laud. Stilich. i. 356.)
Ptolemy (iv. 6. § 33) mentions, in the Western Ocean, an island called
Autolala, or Junonis Insula (Heras he kai Autolala nesos), as distinct from the
Fortunatae group. Some take it for Madeira, but this is very uncertain.
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(Machlues, Herod. iv. 179; Ptol. iv. 3. § 26. vulg. Machrues), a Libyan people,
in the S. of Africa Propria (Byzacena), on the river Triton, and separated by
the lake Tritonis from the Lotophagi, like whom they fed upon the lotus. (Comp.
Plin. vii. 2.)
Maxyes (Maxues, Herod. iv. 191, where the name should be Mazues; a Libyan tribe, and a branch of the nomad Ausenses Herodotus (l. c.) places them on the other side, i. e. the W. bank, of the river Triton: reclaimed from nomad life, they were tillers of the earth, and accustomed to live in houses. They still, however, retained some relics of their former customs, as they suffer the hair on the right side of their heads to grow, but shave the left; they paint their bodies with red-lead: remains of this custom of wearing the hair are still preserved among the Tuaryks, their modern descendants. (Hornemann, Trav. p. 109.) They were probably the same people as those mentioned by Justin (xviii. 7), and called Maxytani, whose king is said to have been Hiarbas (Virg. Aen. iv. 36, 196, 326), and to have desired Dido for his wife. (Heeren, African Nations, vol. i. p. 34, trans.; Rennell, Geog. of Herod. vol. ii. p. 303.)
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SYRTIKE (Ancient area) LIBYA
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.)
LIBYA (Country) NORTH AFRICA
The independent, Nasamonians the most distant of, cross over to Sardinia, inhabit Corsica, come to Sicily from Carthage, Libyans of Motye in Sicily.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 14/6/2001: 116 for Libyans.
Barcaei (Barkaioi), the people of Barca. This is made a separate article for the purpose of correcting the error of most compilers, who mention a Libyan tribe of the name on the authority of Herodotus. That the city was in the midst of Libyan tribes, and that its population was to a great extent Libyan, is unquestionable; but the name Barcaei, in Herodotus, always refers to the city and its neighbourhood; and it may easily be inferred from his statements that the Libyan people, among whom the city was founded, were the Auschisae Herodotus expressly distinguishes the Barcaei, together with the Cyrenaeans, from the neighbouring Libyan tribes. (iii. 13, 91.) It is true that Ptolemy calls the native tribes above the Libyan Pentapolis Barcitae (Barkeitai, iv. 4. § 9), and that Virgil (Aen. iv. 42), by a poetical anticipation, mentions the Barcaei among the native peoples of N. Africa: Hinc deserta siti regio lateque furentes Barcaei. But such expressions belong to a period when the name had been long since extended from the city to the district of which it was the capital, and which Herodotus calls Barcaea (Barkaie, iv. 171), from which district in turn, as usual, the Libyan inhabitants of later time received their name. (See also Steph. B. s. v. Barke: kai Barkaion ton Libun, Phasi Barkaion ethnos, but the reading is doubtful, and recent editors give epos.) It is not meant to be denied that the name may possibly have been of Libyan origin; but it is some-what important to observe that Herodotus does not make the statement usually ascribed to him. For the arguments in favour of the existence of Barca as a Libyan settlement before its Grecian colonization, see Pacho (Voyage dans la Marmarique, p. 175, foll.)
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