Massȳla

, an inland part of Mauri tan i a near mount Atlas. When the inhabitants, called Ma yli , went on horseback, they never used saddles or bridles, but only sticks. Their character was warlike, their manners simple, and their love of liberty unconquerable. Some suppose them to be the same as the Masæylii, though others say half the country belonged only to this last-mentioned people. Livy , bk. 24 , ch. 48 ; bk. 28 , ch. 17 ; bk. 29 , ch. 32 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 3 , li. 282 ; bk. 16 , li. 171 .— Lucan , bk. 4 , li. 682 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 4 , li. 132 .