People
Gnade Getuli
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Gnadegetuli marks a people, the Gnade, whom the map counts among the Gaetuli, the Berber tribes of the North African interior. Nothing else is known of this branch. The Tabula places them beside a mountain where the river Lethon rises, a stream the geographers Strabo, Pliny and Ptolemy knew near Berenike, today's Benghazi, though it may really have been underground water. That points to a home not far south-east of Benghazi. Their name faintly echoes the Gindanes of the Greek historian Herodotus, neighbours of the Lotus-eaters beside a lake called Triton. Since the map gives that same name to the lake of the Lethon, the Gindanes may have drifted east by mistake, though this remains only a hypothesis.