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AGISYMBA

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(anc. geog.), a district of Libya Interior, according to Agathemerus, fitted to the south-east of the Æthiopes Anthropophagi; the parallel passing through which, at 16° to the south of the equator, was the utmost extent of the knowledge of the ancients to the south (Ptolemy).