[3431] From μεσὸς “the middle,” and ἄμμος “sand.”
[3432] See note [3421] in p. 396.
[3433] Herodotus places this nation to the west of the Nasamones and on the river Cinyps, now called the Wadi-Quaham.
[3434] In most of the editions they are called ‘Hammanientes.’ It has been suggested that they were so called from the Greek word ἄμμος “sand.”
[3435] This story he borrows from Herodotus, B. iv. c. 158.
[3436] From the Greek word τρωγλοδύται, “dwellers in caves.” Pliny has used the term already (B. iv. c. [25]) in reference to the nations on the banks of the Danube. It was a general name applied by the Greek geographers to various uncivilized races who had no abodes but caves, and more especially to the inhabitants of the western coasts of the Red Sea, along the shores of Upper Egypt and Æthiopia.
[3437] At the beginning of C. [4].
[3438] Which gives name to the modern Fezzan.
[3439] Now called Tanet-Mellulen, or the station of Mellulen, on the route from Gadamez to Oserona.
[3440] Zaouila or Zala, half way between Augyla and Mourzouk.