Nasamonians
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the Nasamonian youths
in the texts
Orations
North African people known for wearing upright feathers as headdress.
and others still more outlandish than these are wont to visit, with feathers upright on their heads, like the Nasamonians—well, toward these too they hardly dare to make trouble or to molest them by accosting them.
The Histories
A Libyan people near the Syrtis whose adventurous young noblemen crossed the Libyan desert and reported reaching a great river Etearchus guessed to be the Nile.
When these Nasamonians were asked on their arrival if they brought any news concerning the Libyan desert, they told Etearchus that some sons of their leading men, proud and violent youths, when they came to manhood, besides planning other wild adventures, had chosen by lot five of their company to visit the deserts of Libya and see whether they could see any farther than those who had seen the farthest.
except he said that the Nasamonians returned, as the men of Cyrene told me, and that the people to whose country they came were all wizards;
The Nasamonians did not know these men's language nor did the escort know the language of the Nasamonians.