The corpus record — Latin

Machlўes

Machlўes · m

a fabled people of Africa

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What it meant

Machlўes — Lewis & Short

Machlўes, um, m.,

I a fabled people of Africa: supra Nasamonas confinesque illis Machlyas androgynos esse utriusque naturae, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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.