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Irasa was identified by Pacho (pp. 84-5) as a spot, still called Ersen, on the edge of the Libyan plateau, above the Gulf of Bomba; he points out that this would be a natural place (159. 5) to meet an army attacking from the east. Its abundant water and vegetation confirm κάλλιστον.

The spring of Apollo, called Κύρη, is mentioned by Pindar, Pyth. iv. 294; it is identified at Cyrene; cf. Beechey, ib. p. 423 seq., for a description; also Hogarth, A. A. L. p. 132. The name is probably the origin of ‘Cyrene’ (‘the heroine of the spring’); but Studniczka maintains that ‘Cyre’ is only a shortened form (p. 143), and that the name occurs elsewhere in Anti-cyra, Themis-cyra, &c. (in Roscher, u. s.).

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