Chelonides Lacus
αἱ Χελωνίδες κίμναι
Chelonides Lacus (αἱ Χελωνίδες κίμναι), a series of lakes (apparently three), formed by the river Geir in Lybia Interior, the middle one being placed by Ptolemy in 49° long., and 20° N. lat. They seem to correspond to the three lakes of Bushashim, Mahalu or Hadiba, and Fittre, the last and largest of which lies E. of Lake Tchad, and the other two in a line to the NE. of Fittre. (Ptol. 4.6.13; comp. GEIR and LIBYA)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.