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Nasamones

Nasamones · m

a Libyan people to the south-west of Cyrenaica, extending to the Great Syrtis

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Where it lives

Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Năsămōnes — Lewis & Short

Năsămōnes, um, m., = *nasamw=nes,

I a Libyan people to the south-west of Cyrenaica, extending to the Great Syrtis, Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 33; 7, 2, 2, § 14; 13, 17, 23, § 104: tota commercia mundo Naufragiis Nasamones habent (because they plundered shipwrecked persons), Luc. 9, 443.—In sing., a Nasamonian: quas (herbas) Nasamon, gens dura, legit, Luc. 9, 439; acc. Nasamona, Sil. 6, 44.—Hence,

A Năsămōnĭăcus, a, um, adj., Nasamonian, Sil. 16, 630; cf. Ov. M. 5, 129.—

2 Transf., in gen., African: rex, i. e. Hannibal, Stat. S. 4, 6, 75.—

B Năsămōnĭăs, ădis, f., = *nasamwnia/s, the Nasamonian: Nasamonias Harpe, Sil. 2, 117.—

C Năsămōnītis, ĭdis, f., = *nasamwni=tis, a precious stone, otherwise unknown, Plin. 37, 10, 64, § 175.—

D Nă-sămōnĭus, a, um, adj., Nasamonian; poet. for African: natus Nasamonii Tonantis, i. e. Alexander, because he passed for the son of Jupiter Ammon, Stat. S. 2, 7, 93: Jugurtha, Sid. Carm. 9, 257.

In the wild

Nasamones Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.5
Nasamones Lucan, Pharsalia 9.444
Nasamonibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.2.p2
Nasamonibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.11.8
Nasamonibus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.11.4
Nasamones Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.7.19

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Where it came from

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