Lĭbya

, a daughter of Epaphus and ♦ Ca iope, who became mother of Agenor and Belus by Neptune. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , ch. 1 ; bk. 3 , ch. 1 .— Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 44 .――A name given to Africa, one of the three grand divisions of the ancient globe. Libya, properly speaking, is only a part of Africa, bounded on the east by Egypt, and on the west by that part called by the moderns the kingdom of Tripoli. The ancients, according to some traditions mentioned by Hero dot us and others, sailed round Africa, by steering westward from the Red sea, and entered the Mediterranean by the columns of Hercules, after a perilous navigation of three years. From the word Libya, are derived the epithets of Libys , Liby a , Libysis , Libystis , Libycus , Libysticus , Libystinus , Libystæus . Virgil , Æneid , bk. 4 , li. 106 ; bk. 5 , li. 37 .— Lucan , bk. 4 .— Sallust , . ♦ ‘Ca iopea’ replaced with ‘Ca iope’ for consistency