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The Medes and Armenians connected themselves with the Libyans, who dwelled near the African sea; while the Getulians lay more to the sun,"More to the sun] sub sole magis. I have borrowed this expression from Rose. The Getulians were more southward. not far from the torrid heats; and these soon built themselves towns,These soon built themselves towns] That is, the united Medes, Armenians, and Libyans. as, being separated from Spain only by a strait, they proceeded to open an intercourse with its inhabitants. The name of Medes the Libyans gradually corrupted, changing it, in their barbarous tongue, into Moors.Medes—into Moors] Mauris pro Medis. A most improbable, not to say impossible corruption.