Machlyes

Machlyes, um, m.,

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

Machlyes, um, m. pl., peuple fabuleux dʼAfrique : Plin. 7, 15.

MACHLYES

MA´CHLYES (Μάχλυες, Hdt. 4.179; Ptol. 4.3.26. vulg. Μάχρυες), a Libyan people, in the S. of Africa Propria (Byzacena), on the river Triton, and separated by the lake Tritonis from the Lotophagi, like whom they fed upon the lotus. (Comp. Plin. Nat. 7.2.)

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Machlyes Machlyes, a tribe on the Libyan coast

• Hdt. 4.178, Hdt. 4.180