. rings caused bytheir inroads and by locusts, plague, and earth-quakes, are most pathetically described bySynesius, bishop of Ptolemais, in the 5th cen-tury. The country was afterwards overrun bythe Persians, and soon afterwards it fell a finalprey to the great Arabian invasion. Cyrene (Kvprivri), daughter of Hypseus,mother of Aristaeus by Apollo, was carried bythe god from Mt. Pelion to Libya, where thecity of Cyrene derived its name from her ( ix. 5 ; Ap. Rh. i. 500 ; Diod. iv. 81). Cyrene (Kvp-fivri : Kvpr]vaios : Ghren
. rings caused bytheir inroads and by locusts, plague, and earth-quakes, are most pathetically described bySynesius, bishop of Ptolemais, in the 5th cen-tury. The country was afterwards overrun bythe Persians, and soon afterwards it fell a finalprey to the great Arabian invasion. Cyrene (Kvprivri), daughter of Hypseus,mother of Aristaeus by Apollo, was carried bythe god from Mt. Pelion to Libya, where thecity of Cyrene derived its name from her ( ix. 5 ; Ap. Rh. i. 500 ; Diod. iv. 81). Cyrene (Kvp-fivri : Kvpr]vaios : Ghrennah,Hxi.),the chief city of Cyrenaica in N. Africa, wasfounded by Battus ( 631) over a fountainconsecrated to Apollo, and called Cyre (Kvp-q :Att6\Aowos Kp^vr/), which supplied the citywith water, and then ran down to the seathrough a beautiful ravine. The city stood 80stadia (8 geog. miles) from the coast, on theedge of the upper of two terraces of table land,at the height of 1800 feet above the sea, in oneof the finest situations in the world. The road. Coin of , head of Zeus Amnion (whose worship at Cyrene wasderived from the Libyan oracle of Ammon); rev., thesilphium plant. which connected it with its harbour, Apollonia,still exists, and the ruins of Cyrene, thoughterribly defaced, are very extensive, comprising CYRESCHATAstreets, aqueducts, temples, theatres, tombs,paintings, sculpture, and inscriptions. In theface of the terrace on which the city stands is avast subterranean necropolis. For the historyof the city and surrounding country, see Cyre-NAECA. Among its celebrated natives were thephilosopher Aristippus, the poet Callimachus,and the Christian bishop and orator Synesius. Cyreschata or Cyropolis I KupeVx<«a, Kvpa,Kvpov iroKis), a city of Sogdiana, on the Jax-artes, the furthest of the colonies founded byCyrus, and the extreme city of the Persianempire ; destroyed, after many revolts, by Alex-ander. Its position is doubtful, but it was pro-bably n
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