Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . s said to have enclosed a portion ofit with a new wall; but the city itself was alreadytoo f;ir buried in the sand to be restored; and, asfar as we can make out, the little that Justinianattempted seems to have amounted only to the en-closure of a suburb, or old Libyan camp, some dis-tance to the E. of the river, on the W. bank ofwinch the city itself had stood. (Frocop. de 4; comp. Barth.) Its ruin was completedduring the Arab conquest (Leo, AJ). p. 435) ;and, though we find it, in the middle ages, the seatof populous Arab camps, no attempt ha
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . s said to have enclosed a portion ofit with a new wall; but the city itself was alreadytoo f;ir buried in the sand to be restored; and, asfar as we can make out, the little that Justinianattempted seems to have amounted only to the en-closure of a suburb, or old Libyan camp, some dis-tance to the E. of the river, on the W. bank ofwinch the city itself had stood. (Frocop. de 4; comp. Barth.) Its ruin was completedduring the Arab conquest (Leo, AJ). p. 435) ;and, though we find it, in the middle ages, the seatof populous Arab camps, no attempt has been madeto make use of the splendid site, which is nowoccupied by the insignificant village of Legdtah,and the hamlet of El-Hush, which consists of onlyfour houses. (For particulars of the ruins, seeLucas, Proceedings of the Assocuition, <fc. vol. 66, Loud. 1810; Delia Cella, Viagrjio, 40; Beechey, Proceedings, <.fc. chap. vi. pp. 50,foil.; Russells Barbary; Barth, Wanderungen, 305—315.) [P. S.] LERNA. 163. COIX OF LEPTIS. LERINA and LERON. Strabo (p. 185) says : After the Stoechades are Planasia and Leron(77 TlXavaaia Kol Ariputv), which are inhabited ;and in Leron there is also a Leroum of Leron, andLeron is in front of Antipolis. (Aniibes.) Pliny(iii. 5) has Lero. et Lerina adversus (ii. 10. § 21) places Lerone (ATjpwvTj)before the mouth of the Var. Lerina once had atown named Vergoanum (Pliny). The MaritimeItin. places Lero et Lerinas insulae 11 M. Antipolis. These two islands are the Lerins, off the coast ofthe French department of Var. Strabos Planasiais supposed to be Lerina, because it is flat; Leronmust then be the larger island, called Sainte Mar-guerite ; and DAnville conjectures that the mo-nastery dedicated to Sainte Marguerite took the})lace of the Leroum of Lero, which is mentioned byStrabo. The position of these two small islands is more accurately by the Itin. than by thegeographers. Lerina, from
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