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SYRTIKE (Ancient area) LIBYA
Macae (Makai), one of the aboriginal tribes of the Regio Syrtica,
on the N. Coast of Libya, on the river Cinyps, according to Herodotus, who describes
their customs (iv. 175; comp. Scyl. p. 46; Died. iii. 48; Plin. vi. 23, 26; Sil.
iii. 275; Ptol. iv. 3. § 27, calls them Makaioi or Makai, Surtitai). Polybius
mentions Maccaei in the Carthaginian army. (Pol. iii. 33.)
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