Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

West of the Triton river and next to the Aseans begins the country of Libyans who cultivate the soil and possess houses; they are called Maxyes; they wear their hair long on the right side of their heads and shave the left, and they paint their bodies with vermilion.

These claim descent from the men who came from +Troy [26.2833,39.9167] (Perseus) Troy. Their country, and the rest of the western part of Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, is much fuller of wild beasts and more wooded than the country of the nomads.