. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . xpedition. For a time it was subject to Greekinfluence, but again became tributary to the battle of Issus, it joined Alexander, andafter his death, fell to Ptolemy. The island be-came a Roman province (b. c. 58) under circum-stances discreditable to Rome. At first its admin-istration was joined with that of Cilicia, but afterthe battle of Actium it was separately governed. Inthe first division it was made an imperial province;but the emperor afterward gave it up to the proconsul ( deputy, A. V.; the coin belownames a proconsul
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . xpedition. For a time it was subject to Greekinfluence, but again became tributary to the battle of Issus, it joined Alexander, andafter his death, fell to Ptolemy. The island be-came a Roman province (b. c. 58) under circum-stances discreditable to Rome. At first its admin-istration was joined with that of Cilicia, but afterthe battle of Actium it was separately governed. Inthe first division it was made an imperial province;but the emperor afterward gave it up to the proconsul ( deputy, A. V.; the coin belownames a proconsul of the Cyprians on its reverse: seeSergius Paulus) appears to have resided at Paphoson the W. of the island. In the reign of Trajan aterrible insurrection of the Jews led to a massacre,first of the Greek inhabitants, then of the insur-gents. In the ninth century, Cyprus fell into thepower of the Saracens. The crusaders conqueredit under Richard I. of England in 1191 ; the Vene-tians in 14*73; the Turks in 1571. Caphtor ; Ely-mas; Copper Coin of Cyprus, under Emperor [CL]AVDIVS . CAESA[RJ. Head of Emperor to left. KoMINIoY n[POKA]OY AN0YI1A KYflPIwN. Cy-rene (L. fr. Gr.; said to have been namedfrom Cyrene, mother of its first chief), the principalcity of that part of northern Africa, which wasanciently called Cyrenaica, and also (from its fivechief cities) Pentapolitana. This district was thatwide projecting portion of the coast (correspondingto the modern Tripoli), which was separated fromthe territory of Carthage on the one hand, and thatof Egypt on the other. Its surface is a table-landdescending by terraces to the sea; and it was cel-ebrated for its climate and fertility. (Libya.) Thepoints to be noticed in reference to Cyrene as con-nected with the N. T. are these,—that, though onthe African coast, it was a Greek city; that theJews were settled there in large numbers, and thatunder the Romans it was politically connected withCrete. The Gr
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