The name, it has been suggested, is identical with Libyan or Libi.
Verneau discovered in the ravines of Las Balos some genuine Libyan inscriptions.
This work is little more than a sailor's handbook of places and distances all round the coast of the Mediterranean and its branches, and then along the outer Libyan coast as far as the Carthaginians traded.
In prehistoric times one of these colonies displaced previous inhabitants of Libyan origin.
He sustained many single combats, one very famous struggle being the wrestling with the Libyan Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Ge (Earth), who had to be held in the air, as he grew stronger every time he touched his mother, Earth.