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Libyan Aegipanes (Medieval Bestiaries)

Pliny the Elder used the terms "Aegipanes", "Aegipans", or "Oegipans" to describe a race of satyr-like wild men said to reside in Libya. This depiction was continued in medieval bestiaries where the terms aegipans and satyrs were sometimes used to describe ape-like or bestial creatures.

The satyros libys and aigipan libys were two breeds of satyr and Pan-like wild-men or monkeys which inhabited the Atlas Mountains of north-west Africa. They were related to the Satyroi Nesioi and the Ethiopian Satyr encountered by the philosopher Apollonios of Tyana. The creatures were probably derived from fanciful travellers' tales of monkeys and baboons.