in Ancient Geography, a Libyan race of North Africa, inhabiting the oases in the eastern part of the great desert, and separated from the Guctuli by the Mons Usargala. In a more limited sense, the name Garamantes was applied to the inhabitants of the great oasis of Phazania or Fezzan, a district of country which, though well sheltered against the sands of the desert, was neither well watered nor remarkable for fertility. The Garamantes were known to the Greeks, though somewhat vaguely. Herodotus describes their country as lying thirty days' journey from that of the Lotophagi, as fruitful in dates, and notable for its cattle, whose horns were so long and so bent forward that the animals had to feed walking backwards. Immediately adjoining the Garamantes, dwelt in caves a wretched negro race of wonderful swiftness of foot, whom their more powerful neighbours used to hunt down in chariots. Nothing new was ascertained about the Garamantes after the time of Herodotus till the Romans became masters of North Africa. In the year n.c. 19 Cornelius Balbus, a Roman proconsul, penetrated into their country, and overawed the towns on his line of march, which yielded a sort of temporary homage. He was rewarded with a triumph for his success, which, however, was rather nominal and temporary than real and permanent.