people
Cyrenaeans
also: Cyrenenses
The Greek people of Cyrene in eastern Libya; their long frontier war with Carthage was settled by the sacrifice of the Philaeni.
Reading notes
- The Jugurthine War §79 Cyrenaeans
The Greeks of Cyrene in eastern Libya, whose great frontier war with Carthage over the trackless sands was ended by the Philaeni's sacrifice.