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75. There were at least four separate tribes with the ethnic Nazices.,
Desanges 1962,34,63,112-113,271 (the M. S. K. R. H. were presumably
of similar nature. ) References to Mazices in eastern Libya include
Nestorius, Hist eccl, I, 7 (in the Great Khargeh oasis of the
western Egyptian desert); Liber. Gen. p. 167 (near the Garamantes);
Philostorgius, Hist ecc1, XI, 8. (near the Austuriani).
76. Corippus mentions the Nasamon many times in the Iohannid. - sometimes
as a synonym for Laguatan, VI, 198; 552; 589; 593; 692; VII, 465; 510;
VIII, 95 etc.
77. Corippus, II, 117-18, refers to warriors from Digdida the Digdida municipium
Selorum of the Peutinger Table, Seg VIII.
78. Corippus, II 74-75 (Astrikes) and II, 62 (Macares) may possibly be
equatable with the Astakoures (Ptolemy, IV, 3,6; 6,6) and the Macae.
79. Corippus, VI, 188-201.
80. As above. The full passage is worth quoting. Diggle and Goodyear
1970,120:
"mentis inops nimium responsis fisus iniquis
horrida bella parat. discurrens fama per omnes
190 it populos, regnum cecinit quod gentibus Ammon.
excurrunt celeres calidis a Syrtibus alae
invitantque feras regni sub imagine gentes.
barbara turba coit: numeris augetur et armis.
tunc equites peditesque ruunt altisque camelis.
195 Maurorum qui more sedent. nec Bolus Ilaguas
auf gentes tantum, egerunt quae bella priores
convenire sibi, sed si quis Syrtica rura
asper arat Nasamon, si quis Garamantidos arvis
proximus arva colit, pinguis qui margine Nili,
200 stagna bibunt, venere viri. quis dicere gentes
auf numerare queat "
81. Brogan 1975,282-84; Camps 1980,124-28, Jerary 1976,91-129.
82. Oates 1953,113; 1954,110-11; Brogan 1975,282-84. Bulugma 1960,
111-19, examines the ethnic origin of modern tribes in the coastal
zone; Despois 1935, deals at length with the modem Nefusa tribes.
83. Full references in Courtois 1955,94, notes 1-5; but see now Denys le
Petit, Codex canonum ecclesiae africanae XLIX; LII.
84. Gesta Col Carth. 1208, in P. L. vol. XI, col 1348; Courtois 1955,34.
85. quamvis Anzuges per Iongum Africae limitem generalitor vocentur.
86. Goodchild 1950a, 30-31.
87. Courtois 1955,93-95.
88. Bates 1914,68, note 7.
89. = CIL 8.22787. Desanges 1962,77-80; Brogan 1975,280-81.
90. Goodchild 1976,59-71; Courtois 1955,93-95 and from personal
observation in the UL VP; Buck, Burns and Mattingly 1983.