Psylli 3935843 169821776 2007-11-07T08:31:24Z SmackBot 433328 Date/fix the maintenance tags or gen fixes using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{Cleanup|date=November 2007}} In his discussion of [[North Africa]] [[Herodotus]] tells the story of the '''Psylli''', “a tribe that met with extinction.” After the desert wind dried up their water holes, they marched out to do battle with it and were buried alive (IV.173). [[Pliny the Elder]] maintains more reasonably that they were “almost exterminated” in a war with their neighbors, the [[Nasamones]], but the descendants of those who escaped “survive today in a few places” (VII.2.14). [[Strabo]] does not mention an unsuccessful war against either the desert wind or the [[Nasamones]] but only that the Psylli were still in existence, occupying “a barren and arid region” (XVII.3.23) below the Nasamones. Later writers, especially poets, bestowed on the Psylli a reputation as great [[snake charmers]]. ===References=== Smith, Richard L. 2003 "What Happened to the Ancient Libyans?" ''[[Journal of World History]]'', Vol. 14.4: 459-500. [[Category:History of Libya]] [[Category:Ethnic groups in Libya]]