Libyans
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the Libyans · Libyan tribes · al-Lībiyyūn · الليبيون
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
In our view it is Hebrew or Phoenician, its original being “Habaʻl” הבעל, which is the name of the greatest of the idols of the Phoenicians or the Canaanites and of those neighbouring them among the nations of Syria, such as the Moabites, the Midianites, the Babylonians and the Libyans.
in the texts
The Histories
The various tribes inhabiting Libya's coast and interior, among whom the Nasamonians are singled out.
It must be known that the whole northern seacoast of Libya, from Egypt as far as the promontory of Soloeis, which is the end of Libya, is inhabited throughout its length by Libyans, many tribes of them, except the part held by Greeks and Phoenicians;
These are a Libyan people, inhabiting the country of the Syrtis and a little way to the east of the Syrtis.
Alone of all nations the Libyans have had among them the name of Poseidon from the beginning, and they have always honored this god.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
A North African people included in the list of nations neighbouring the Phoenicians whose greatest idol was Baal.
In our view it is Hebrew or Phoenician, its original being “Habaʻl” הבעל, which is the name of the greatest of the idols of the Phoenicians or the Canaanites and of those neighbouring them among the nations of Syria, such as the Moabites, the Midianites, the Babylonians and the Libyans.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Indigenous Libyan besiegers defeated by the Peloponnesian reinforcements during their voyage to Sicily.
For when they had been carried by a tempest to Libya, and the Cyrenaeans had given them two triremes, and pilots for their voyage, during their passage along shore they entered into alliance with the Euesperitae, who were being besieged by the Libyans, and defeated the latter people;