STACHIR
STACHIR (
Στάχειρ,
Ptol. 4.6. § § 7 and 8), a river on the W. coast of Libya Interior, which rose in Mount Ryssadium. Not far from its source it formed a lake named Clonia, and after flowing in a westerly direction, discharged itself into the Sinus Hesperius, to the SE. of the promontory of Ryssadium.
It is probably the same river which Pliny (
5.1. s. 1) calls Salsus, and may be the modern
St. John or
St. Antonio river, also called
Rio de Guaon. [
T.H.D]