That part of the Mediterranean which lies along the coast of Libya, extending eastward as far as the island of Crete.
Libycum mare (to Libukon pelagos, pontos Libues), was the name applied to that
part of the Mediterranean which washed the shores of N. Africa, from the E. coast
of Africa Propria on the W., to the S. shores of Crete, and the frontier of Egypt,
on the E., where it joined the Mare Aegyptium: the two Syrtes belonged to it.
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