Libya, Was among the Greekes, the generall name of all Affrica: Notwithstanding, it is of the Romaines taken only for that part of Affrica, which is from Aegipt to the west Occean, contayning Cyrenaica, Affrica minor, Numidia, & Mauritania. The Spaniardes doe commonly call them all Moores.Libya interior, Is bounded on the North, with the two cositryes called Mauritania, with Affrike the lesse, and Cyrenaica: on % east with Aethiope: on the south with Aethiope the further: on the west with the Occean sea. In this country are the people called Garamantes, and Getulæ.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Lĭba (Lĭbŭa, Plaut. Curc. 3, 76), ae, and Lĭbē, ēs, f., = *libu/h, Libya, Plin. 5, 6, 6, 39; Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101: Graecus Aristippus, qui servos proicere aurum In media jussit Libya, Hor. S. 2, 3, 100.—B.Transf., Africa.—Form Libya: mundus ... premitur Libyae devexus in Austros. Verg. G. 1, 240; Juv. 11, 25.—Form Libye: Libye torretur, Sil. 1, 194: tibi habe frumentum, O Libye, dum tubera mittas, Juv. 5, 119.—II. Hence, A. Lĭbcus, a, um, adj., = *libuko/s, of Libya, Libyan: fines, Verg. A. 1, 339: cursus, id. ib. 6, 338: gentes, id. ib. 4, 320: lapilli,
the funeral pile on which Hannibal, after the battle of Cannæ, caused the bodies of the slaughtered Romans to be burned
, Luc. 7, 880: orbes,
a table-top of citrus
, Mart. 2, 43, 9: Libycus campus in agro Argeo (i. e. Argivo) appellatus, quod in eo primum fruges ex Libya allatae sunt. Quam ob causam etiam Ceres ab Argeis Libyssa vocata est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 121 Müll.—Plur. subst.: Lĭbci, ōrum, m., the Libyans, Macr. S. 1, 17.—2.Transf., African, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 16: mare Libycum,
the Egyptian Sea
, Plin. 5, 1, 1, 1: fera,
the lion
, Ov. F. 5, 178: arenae, id. M. 4, 616: axis,
the African sky, Afríca
, Sen. Herc. Oet. 908: uvae, Col. 3, 2: crines,
frizzly, woolly hair
, Luc. 10, 129: pestes, i. e.
snakes
, id. 9, 805.—B. Lĭbys, os and ys, and Libs, ĭbis, adj., = *li/bus, Líbyan: Libys lectulus,
of citrus
, Verg. Cir. 440: mons, Stat. S. 4, 2, 27.—Subst.1. Form Lĭbys, os, m., a Libyan: Africam initio habuere Gaetuli et Libyes, Sall. J. 18 init.: Cancro (subditus) Libys, Sen. Herc. Oet. 24.—2. Form Libs. (a).A Libyan, Sid. Carm. 9, 94.—(b). = Africus (sc. ventus), the south-west wind (acc. Liba), Plin. 2, 47, 46, 119.—C. Lĭbyssus, a, um, adj., Libyan: Libyssa arena, Cat. 7, 3: gens, Sil. 8, 206: ficus, Col. 10, 418: Libyssa Ceres, a surname of Ceres among the Argives, Paul. ex Fest. p. 121 (v. the passage under Libycus).—D. Lĭbystīnus, a, um, adj., = *libusti=nos, Libyan: montes Libystini, Cat. 60, 1: Apollo,
a name given to Apollo by the Sicilians, because he had delivered them by a pestilence from an attack of the Carthaginians
, Macr. S. 1, 17.—E. Lĭby-stis, ĭdis, f., = *libusti/s, Libyan: Libystis ursa, Verg. A. 5, 37.—F. Lĭbus, a, um, adj., Libyan: Libya citrus, Varr. ap. Non. 86, 10: terra,