The corpus record — Latin

Garamantes

Garamantes · m

a powerful tribe of the interior of Africa

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Where it lives

De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 1 · 0.81/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

Gărămantes — Lewis & Short

Gărămantes, um, m., = *gara/mantes,

I a powerful tribe of the interior of Africa, beyond the Gœtulians, in the modern Fezzan, Mel. 1, 4, 4; 1, 8, 7; Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 36 sq.; Liv. 29, 33; Verg. E. 8, 44; id. A. 6, 794.— In sing.: Gărămas, antis, Sil. 6, 705; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1106.—

II Derivv.

A Gărămantĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Garamantes, Garamantian, poet. also i. q. African: signa, Sil. 1, 142: vates, id. 14, 440: carbunculi, Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 92.—Hence,

1 Plur. as subst.: Gără-mantĭci = Garamantes, Schol. Vet. Juv. 10, 150.—

2 Gărămantĭca, ae, f., a sort of precious stone, also called sandaresus or sandastros, Plin. 37, 7, 28, § 100 (al. Garamantites).—

B Gărămantis, ĭdis, adj., = Garamanticus: Nympha, Verg. A. 4, 198: pinus, Sil. 14, 498: gemma, id. 15, 679.

In the wild

Garamantum Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 10
Garamantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.8
Garamantum Silius Italicus, Punica 17.447
Garamantum Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 p33
Garamantes Silius Italicus, Punica 13.479
Garamantum Tacitus, Annales 3.p74

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Where it came from

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.