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Myrmex

Μύρμηχ

Myrmex (Μύρμηχ, Ptol. 4.4.15), an island off the coast of Cyrenaica, which is identified with the AUSIGDA (Αὔσιγδα) of Hecataeus (Fr. 300), where the charts show an islet, between Ptolemais and Phycus.

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.