Libya

hence, it is always summer in the inland part of Libya.

For the Nile flows from Libya, right through the middle of it;

In its passage over the inland parts of Libya, the sun does this:

nor Libya, "where the lambs are at once horned"— 15.

For it is said that long ago there was a certain harsh and savage race of beasts, most numerous and most prevalent in the uninhabited parts of Libya.

I have sailed to Libya’s deserts and all its inhospitable landing-places;

Why should I tell you about our losses in the Aegean, and Nauplios’ beacons on Euboia, and my visits to Crete and the cities of Libya, and the mountain-peaks of Perseus?

He was cast up on the harborless rocks of Libya.

, with the honor of the gods, and govern the divine city of golden-throned Cyrene, having discovered the wisdom of right counsel.

Today you must stand beside a beloved man, Muse, the king of Cyrene with its fine horses, so that while Arcesilas celebrates his triumph you may swell the fair wind of song that is due to the children of Leto and to Pytho, where once the priestess seated beside the golden eagles of Zeus, on a day when Apollo happened to be present, gave an oracle naming Battus as the colonizer of fruitful Libya, a …

And now queen Libya of the broad meadows will gladly welcome your glorious bride in her golden halls.

I have read the letter of your holiness, in which you lament the governor of Libya, that man of ill-omened name.

they ward off pestilence from Egypt when they kill and consume the winged snakes borne in from the wastes of Libya by the African wind, so that those serpents harm not by their bite while alive nor by their stench when dead.

And they say that in Libya a scorpion, if it cannot reach to strike a man, goes off and returns with several others, and, fastening one to another like a chain, in this way contrives to get the start in carrying out the plot — the irrational animals surely not using some unseen nod, nor indicating to one another by gesture, but, I think, by their own dialect.

This Lycon, when he was about to set out on a voyage to Libya, reckoned up his account with my father in the presence of Archebiades and Phrasias, and ordered my father to pay the money which he left (it was sixteen minae forty drachmae, as I shall show you very clearly) to Cephisiades, saying that this Cephisiades was a partner of his, a resident of Scyros, but was for the time being abroad on an …

"The ship ran before a fresh North wind till we had reached the sea that lies between Crete and Libya;

I stayed there for a whole twelve months, but at the end of that time when months and days had gone by till the same season [ hôra] had come round again, he set me on board a ship bound for Libya, on a pretense that I was to take a cargo along with him to that place, but really that he might sell me as a slave and take the wealth I fetched.

His father was Poseidon, his mother Libya the daughter of Epaphus the son of Zeus, and she, they say, was the first woman to rule as queen and to give her own name to her country.

This hero went to the house of Antaeus in grain-bearing Libya, to keep him from roofing Poseidon’s temple with the skulls of strangers,

) yet Gylippus came with fresh troops raised from the rest of Sicily, and with the heavy-armed which had been sent out from the Peloponnese in the spring, on board the merchantmen, and had arrived at Selinus from Libya.

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;