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Barcē, ēs, f., = Βάρκη.

  1. I. A town in the Libyan province Pentapolis, afterwards called Ptolemais, now Tolometa or Dolmeita (acc. to others, the ruins of Merdsjeh), Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 32.
    Hence, Barcaei, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Barce, enemies of Dido (poet. prolepsis), Verg. A. 4, 43.
  2. II. The nurse of Sichœus, Verg. A. 4, 632.