Histories

Next to the Maxyes of Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya are the Zauekes, whose women drive their chariots to war.

Next to these are the Gyzantes, where much honey is made by bees, and much more yet (so it is said) by craftsmen.[*](cp. Hdt. 7.31, where men are said to make honey out of wheat and tamarisk.) It is certain that they all paint themselves with vermilion and eat apes, with which their mountains swarm.

Off their coast (the Carthaginians say) lies an island called Cyrauis, twenty-five miles long and narrow across, accessible from the mainland; it is full of olives and vines.