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Libye

Libye is a Latin form of Libya, meaning “Libya, North Africa”.

It can also be a form of Libys, “Libyan, African”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.237: Tum facta est Libye raptis umoribus aestu

All forms of Libya (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.