Libycum Mare

LI´BYCUM MARE(τὸ Λιβυκὸν πέλαγος, πόντος Λιβύης), was the name applied to that part of the Mediterranean which washed the shores of N. Africa, from the E. coast of Africa Propria on the W., to the S. shores of Crete, and the frontier of Egypt, on the E., where it joined the Mare Aegyptium: the two Syrtes belonged to it. (Strab. ii. pp. 122, 123, x. pp. 475, 488; Agathem. 1.3, 2.14; Dion. Per. 104; Mela, 1.4, 2.7; Plin. Nat. 5.1; Florus (Flor. 3.6.10.)

That part of the Mediterranean which lies along the coast of Libya, extending eastward as far as the island of Crete (Mela, i. 4).