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- Psylli - Wikipedia
The Psylli (Seli) were a native Libyan tribe inhabiting Ancient Libya [1] Pliny the Elder (Hist Nat , vii 14) places the Psylli on the Syrtic coast above the Garamantes, and gives Psyllikos Kolpos as an early name of the Syrtic Gulf
- The Psylli: An Ancient Libyan Tribe That Fought the Wind And Sand—And . . .
Around the turn of the 5th century BCE, the Psylli tribe, a people located somewhere along the coast of the Gulf of Sirte (or the Great Syrte), mysteriously disappeared after suffering a major drought
- Psylli | Encyclopedia. com
This name was also given by various writers to the snake charmers of Africa, and it is claimed that the serpents twisted round the bodies of these Psylli without doing them any injury, although the reptiles did not have their fangs extracted or broken
- Psylli | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography | Archli
They were supposed by the ancients to have a secret art enabling them to secure themselves from the poison of serpents, like the Háwee,or snake jugglers of Cairo (Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, vol 5 p 241 ; Lane, Modern Egyptians, vol 2 p 214; Quatremère, Mém sur l'Egypte, vol i pp 203—211 )
- Psylli - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
The Psylli (Seli) were a Berber tribe inhabiting Ancient Libya Pliny the Elder (Hist Nat , vii 14) places the Psylli on the Syrtic coast above the Garamantes, and gives Psyllikos Kolpos as an early name of the Syrtic Gulf
- Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Book XVI, XI - Perseus Digital Library
And when I had sought in ancient records for information about their name and race, I found at last in the fourth book of Herodotus 1 this story about them: that the Psylli had once been neighbours in the land of Africa of the Nasamones, and that the South Wind at a certain season in their territories blew very long and hard; that because of
- Psyllians, Psylli | Department of Linguistics
Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898): Psylli （Ψύλλοι) A Libyan people, the earliest known inhabitants of the district of North Africa called Cyrenaïca Pliny (Pliny H N vii 2Pliny H N , 13） speaks of them as able to heal wounds caused by serpents
- Psylli - Ancient Greek (LSJ)
Psylli: ōrum, m , = Ψύλλοι,I an African people south-west of the Syrtis Major, celebrated as serpent-charmers: qui Psylli nominantur, Cels 5, 27, 3; Plin 7, 2, 2, § 14; 8, 25, 38, § 93; Suet Aug 17; Luc 9, 893 —Sing : exemplum Psylli secutus, Cels 5, 27, 3
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