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Headword: *masaisu/lion
Adler number: mu,243
Translated headword: Masaisylian, Masaesylian
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A people.
Greek Original:
*masaisu/lion: e)/qnos.
Notes:
Of north Africa. See e.g. Polybius 3.33.15, 16.23.6; Strabo 2.5.33, 17.3.15; mentioned also in Plutarch and Polyaenus.
This entry is repeated as mu 246. Perhaps [NF] because, besides the Masaisylioi, there was also a neighbouring tribe called the Maisylioi (Polybius 3.33.15, Strabo 2.5.33).
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 October 2002@08:05:03.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 11 October 2002@19:58:15.
Nicholas Fincher (Augmented note) on 18 July 2003@14:40:34.
David Whitehead (expanded NF's note; cosmetics) on 19 July 2003@06:57:12.
David Whitehead on 28 July 2011@03:59:25.
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