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Barce

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

Barcē, ēs, f.: the nurse of Sychaeus, 4.632.
Barcē, ēs, f., = Βάρκη.
  • A town in the Libyan province Pentapolis, afterwards called Ptolemais, now Tolometa or Dolmeita (acc. to others, the ruins of Merdsjeh), Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 32.
  • —Hence, Barcaei, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Barce, enemies of Dido (poet. prolepsis), Verg. A. 4, 43.—
  • II The nurse of Sichaeus, Verg. A. 4, 632.

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