Năsămōnes | Năsămōnĭăcus, a, um | Năsămōnĭăs, ădis | Năsămōnītis, ĭdis | Nă-sămōnĭus, a, um (noun M.f.f) : Νασαμῶνες
* 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
* Adj., Nasamonian, Sil. 16, 630; cf. Ov. M. 5, 129.
* Transf., in gen., African: rex,i. e. Hannibal,Stat. S. 4, 6, 75.
* = Νασαμωνιάς, the Nasamonian: Nasamonias Harpe,Sil. 2, 117.
* = Νασαμωνῖτις, a precious stone, otherwise unknown, Plin. 37, 10, 64, § 175.
* 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.