Barcē, ēs, f., = Βάρκη.
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.
II —Hence, Barcaei , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Barce , enemies of Dido (poet. prolepsis), Verg. A. 4, 43.—
II The nurse of Sichaeus , Verg. A. 4, 632.