| Title: | Nomads (Numidian) |
| Original Title: | Nomades numides |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 11 (1765), p. 202 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Joshua Handell [University of Michigan] |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Nomads (Numidian)." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Joshua Handell. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.179>. Trans. of "Nomades numides," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 11. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Nomads (Numidian)." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Joshua Handell. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.179 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Nomades numides," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 11:202 (Paris, 1765). |
Nomads (Numidian). The Numidians were called nomads by the Greeks, according to Pliny (1.V.c.iii). Polybius places the Massylii and Maesulian nomads in Numidia. One cannot deny, then, that in Africa and even in Numidia there were nomads, which is to say, peoples who change locations as soon as they lack pastureland; but it would not be easy to determine whether the name of Numidia has a Greek origin. One would think that a barbarian country would have a barbarian name.