Liburnĭdes, an island on the coast of Liburnia, in the Adriatic. Strabo, bk. 5.
Liburnum mare, the sea which borders on the coasts of Liburnia.
Liburnus, a mountain of Campania.
Lĭbya, a daughter of Epaphus and [♦]Cassiope, who became mother of Agenor and Belus by Neptune. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1; bk. 3, ch. 1.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 44.——A name given to Africa, one of the three grand divisions of the ancient globe. Libya, properly speaking, is only a part of Africa, bounded on the east by Egypt, and on the west by that part called by the moderns the kingdom of Tripoli. The ancients, according to some traditions mentioned by Herodotus and others, sailed round Africa, by steering westward from the Red sea, and entered the Mediterranean by the columns of Hercules, after a perilous navigation of three years. From the word Libya, are derived the epithets of Libys, Libyssa, Libysis, Libystis, Libycus, Libysticus, Libystinus, Libystæus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 4, li. 106; bk. 5, li. 37.—Lucan, bk. 4.—Sallust, &c.
[♦] ‘Cassiopea’ replaced with ‘Cassiope’ for consistency
Liby̆cum mare, that part of the Mediterranean which lies on the coast of Cyrene. Strabo, bk. 2.
Libycus and Libystis. See: [Libya].
Libys, a sailor, &c. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3.
Libyssa, a river of Bithynia, with a town of the same name, where was the tomb of Annibal, still extant in the age of Pliny.
Licates, a people of Vindelicia.