. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. and itheld a distinguished placein literature, as the birth-place of A]istippus, thefounder of the Cyrenseanschool ; of Carneades, thefounder of the New Aca-demy at Athens ; and ofthe poet Callimachus. Itsruins at Grennah are veryextensive, and contain remains of streets, aqueducts, temples, theatres,and tombs. In the face of the terrace, on which the city stands, is avast subterraneous necropolis, Cyrene was governed by a dynasty,named the Battiadae,^ inwhich the kings bore alter-nately the na
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. and itheld a distinguished placein literature, as the birth-place of A]istippus, thefounder of the Cyrenseanschool ; of Carneades, thefounder of the New Aca-demy at Athens ; and ofthe poet Callimachus. Itsruins at Grennah are veryextensive, and contain remains of streets, aqueducts, temples, theatres,and tombs. In the face of the terrace, on which the city stands, is avast subterraneous necropolis, Cyrene was governed by a dynasty,named the Battiadae,^ inwhich the kings bore alter-nately the names of Battusand Arcesilaus, from to about 430, afterwhich it became a repub-lic. It was made a Ro-man colony with the nameof Flavia. Ptolemais waserected by the Ptolemies,and was peopled with theinhabitants of Barca onthe former site of the port of that town. Its ruins are in part coveredby the sea. Barca stood on the summit of the terraces which overlook theV^. coast of the Syrtis, in the midst of a well-watered^ and fertile Coin of Barca. In anotlier passage of the same poet we have other characteristics of the placenoticed—its fertility, the white colour of its chalk cliffs, and the celebrity ofits horses :— Xpy^crei olKLcrTrjpa BdrrovKapiTO(f)6pov xitjSva?, UpavNacroi/ cos rjSrj AtTrcbvKTLcra-etev evdpixarov ev apyLvoevTL /xacrrco.—Id. Pytli. iv. 01 6 ovTco TTrjY^? KvpTjs neXdcrcraiAwpteeg. Callim. Hymn, in Apoll. 88. 1 Quam. niagnus numerus Libyssae arenaeLaserpieiferis jacet Cyrenis,Oraculum Jovis inter sestuosi, Et Batti veteris sacrum sepulcrum.—Catull. vii. 3. 2 Et iniquo e Sole calentes Battiadas late imperio sceptrisque regebat.—Sil. Ital. ii. non Cyrene Pelopei stirpe nepotis Battiadas pravos fidei stimularit in arma.—Sil. Ital. iii. 252.^ The epithet arida in the following passages must be hokl to refer, not to theactual site of the town, but to the neighbouring desert table-hmd : — Adfuit 294 CYEEXAICA.
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