Pomponius Mela, Julius Solinus, and the Antonine Itinerary

...the Pharusii are, as far as the Ethiopians. These possess the rest of this region and the entire side that looks to the south as far as the borders of Asia. But above those lands which are washed by the Libycan Sea are the Libyan Egyptians, and the Leuco-Ethiopians, and the numerous and manifold nation of the Getuli. Then the region lies empty for a long, perpetually uninhabitable stretch. Next, we hear of the Garamantes first from the east, then the Angilae and Troglodytae, and finally the Atlantes toward the west. Within (if one is to believe it), there are already scarcely men—the more half-beast Aegypanes, and the Blemmyes, and the Gamphasantes, and the Satyrs—wandering here and there without roofs or homes, possessing the lands rather than inhabiting them. This is the sum of our world, these are the greatest parts. These are the shapes and the peoples of the parts. Now, intending to describe the shores and positions more accurately, it is most convenient to begin from where our sea enters the lands. And particularly from those [places] which are on the right as one flows in. Then, to brush past the shores in the order in which they lie, and after having traversed all those which touch the sea, to read also those which the ocean surrounds, until the course of the work begun, having circled the world inside and out, returns to the place where it began.

A Particular Description of Africa. Chapter IIII.

It has been said that the Atlantic is the ocean which touches the lands from the west. From here, to those proceeding into our sea, Hispania is on the left, Mauritania on the right. Those are the first parts of Europe, these of Africa. The end of its coast is the Mulucha; its head and beginning is a promontory which the Greeks call Ampelusia, the Africans otherwise, but [it is] the same in signi-