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Garamantes

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(adj.adj.) : Gărămantes, um, m., = Γαράμαντες
* A powerful tribe of the interior of Africa, beyond the Goetulians, in the modern Fezzan, Mel. 1, 4, 4; 1, 8, 7; Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 36 sq.; Liv. 29, 33; Verg. E. 8, 44; id. A. 6, 794.— In sing.: Gărămas, antis, Sil. 6, 705; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1106.
* Derivv.
* Gărămantĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Garamantes, Garamantian, poet. also i. q. African: signa,Sil. 1, 142: vates,id. 14, 440: carbunculi,Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 92.—Hence
* Plur. as subst.: Gără-mantĭci = Garamantes, Schol. Vet. Juv. 10, 150.
* Gărămantis, ĭdis, adj., = Garamanticus: Nympha,Verg. A. 4, 198: pinus,Sil. 14, 498: gemma,id. 15, 679.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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