The Mazices were Berbers of North Africa who appear in classical and late antique Greek and Latin sources.
[2] In the 1st century AD, Lucan uses Mazax, the singular form of Mazaces, as a collective noun for the people.
[3] In the 3rd century, the Chronicle of Pseudo-Hippolytus placed the Mazices on the same level as the Mauri, Gaetuli and Afri.
[1] In the last decade of the 4th century, the Mazices and Austurians began ravaging Cyrenaica.
[4] During the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justin I (518–527), the Mazices plundered Egypt in conjunction with the Blemmyes.