Barce, A citie in Affrike called also Ptolomais. It was the name of Sichæus nurse, and a Oueene of Lybia. Also a promoutorie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
barca, ae, f., a small boat, a bark, barge (post-class.): barca est, quae cuncta navis commercia ad litus portat. Hanc navis in pelago propter nimias undas suo suscipit gremio, etc., Isid. Orig. 19, 1, 19; Paul. Nol. Carm. 21, 95.
Barcas (Barca), ae, m., = *ba/rkas [, a gleaming, or a gleaming sword, as an epithet of heroes; cf. Gesenius, Gesch. d. Hebr. Spr. und Schr, p. 229], ancestor of a distinguished family in Carthage to which Hamilcar and Hannibal belonged, hence, a surname of Hamilcar, Nep. Ham. 1, 1.— Hence, II. Derivv A. Barcīnus, a, um, adj., of Barcas, or pertaining to the family or party of Barcas: familia Barcina, Liv. 23, 13, 6: factio, id. 21, 9, 4.—Subst.: Bar-cīni, ōrum, m., the Barcini, Liv 21, 3, 3.— Poet.: Barcina clades,
near the river Metaurus
,
where Hasdrubal was conquered and slain
, Sid. Carm. 2, 532.—B. Bar-caeus, a, um, adj., of Barcas, Barcœan: juvenis, i. e.
Barcē, ēs, f., = *ba/rkh. I.A town in the Libyan province Pentapolis, afterwards called Ptolemais, now Tolometa or Dolmeita (acc. to others, the ruins of Merdsjeh), Plin. 5, 5, 5, 32.—Hence, Barcaei, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Barce, enemies of Dido (poet. prolepsis), Verg. A. 4, 43.—II.The nurse of Sichœus, Verg. A. 4, 632.