ης (ἡ) [ῐῠ]
   I Libyè, fille d’Épaphos, mère d’Agénor, de Busiris, etc. ESCHL. Suppl. 316 ; ISOCR. 11, 10 Baiter-Sauppe, etc. ;
   II la Libye, dans Homère, de l’Égypte à l’Océan ; d’ord., tantôt l’Afrique entière, tantôt la région entre l’Égypte et les Syrtes, HDT. 2, 32, etc.

➳ Dor. Λιϐύα, PD. P. 4, 6, etc. ; THCR. Idyl. 16, 77 ; 17, 87 ; ANTH. 7, 166.

Étym. Λίϐυς.

ἡ, Libya, Od. 4.85, 14.295, Hdt. 1.46, etc. ; also for Africa generally, Id. 4.42, al. ; the west bank of the Nile, PTaur. 8.9 (ii BC), PLond. 1.3.8 (ii BC); prov., ἀεὶ Λιβύη φέρει τι καινόν or κακόν, Arist. HA 606b20, Zen. 2.51; — Adv. Λιβύηθεν, from Libya, D.P. 46, 222; — also Λιβύηθε, Dor. Λιβύαθε, Nic. Al. 368, Theoc. 1.24; — Adj. Λιβυκός, ή, όν, Hdt. 2.8, etc. ; Λ. ὄρνεον, i.e. a strange, foreign bird, Ar. Av. 65; Λ. λόγοι a kind of fables resembling those of Aesop, Arist. Rh. 1393a30; also, western, Ptol. Tetr. 119; = δυτικός, Procl. Par. Ptol. 29.

Libya, the north part of Africa west of Egypt, (Odyssey by Homer); in later writers also for the whole Continent (ML)

Place, proper name

• ancient region, modern North Africa between Egypt and the Moroccan coast. (TOPOS text)