Ancient sources According to Sallust,Sallust, Historiae, II, fr.4 Sardus son of Hercules, left Libya along with a great multitude of men and occupied the island of Sardinia, which was so named after him. Later Pausanias confirms the story of Sallust and in the second century CE writes that Sardus was the son of Makeris ( Melqart) and that the island of Sardinia changed its name from Ichnusa to Sardinia in honor of Sardus.Pausanias, Ελλάδοσ περιήγησισ, X, 17
Ancient sources According to Sallust,Sallust, Historiae, II, fr.4 Sardus son of Hercules, left Libya along with a great multitude of men and occupied the island of Sardinia, which was so named after him. Later Pausanias confirms the story of Sallust and in the second century CE writes that Sardus was the son of Makeris ( identifiable with Mecur / Macer, a Libyan name deriving from the Berber imɣur "to grow"), and that the island of Sardinia changed its name from Ichnusa to Sardinia in honor of Sardus.Pausanias, Ελλάδοσ περιήγησισ, X, 17
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identifiable with Mecur / Macer, a Libyan name deriving from the Berber imɣur "to grow"),