According to the legend told by Pindar (_Pyth._ ix. 26) Cyrenè was the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths in Thessaly, whose flocks she guarded against wild beasts. Apollo, seeing her slaying a lion in the valleys of Pelion, became enamoured of her, and carried her off to the part of Libya which afterwards bore her name. According to another legend (Scholiast on Apoll. Rhod. _Argon._, ii., 498, &c.), Eurypylos, king of Libya, had promised a portion of his kingdom to the person who would slay a lion then dreaded for his ravages. Cyrenè performed this exploit, and received in reward the promised district. It is probably in connection with this later legend that Libya is introduced crowning Cyrenè in the relief. Aristaeus, a mythic founder of Cyrenè, was the son of Apollo and Cyrenè. The form of the relief suggests that it may have been a metope, and the words [Greek: hyper melathroio] in the inscription have therefore been translated "above the architrave."--_Found outside the Temple of Aphroditè, Cyrenè._ Marble; height, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Smith and Porcher, pl. 76, p. 98; pl. 83, No. 19. R. C. Puckett, _De marmoribus tribus Cyrenaicis_; Bonn, 1868, p. 16, and Plate; _Guide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures_, Part II., No. 129; Overbeck, _Griech. Kunstmythologie_, III., p. 496; _Atlas_, pl. 26, fig. 16; Wolters, No. 1916; Studniczka, _Kyrene_, p. 31. The inscription is given by Kaibel, _add._ 842_a_ (in some points incorrectly). For the legends of Cyrenè, see Studniczka, p. 39. [Sidenote: =791.=] Fragment from the right side of a votive relief. Heracles stands, nude, with the lion-skin and club on his left arm. The head and extended right hand are wanting. On the left is a fragment of a draped figure. The relief was contained in pilasters, surmounted by an entablature. Pentelic marble; height, 2 feet 1/2 inch; width, 10 inches. [Sidenote: =792.=] Fragment of a votive relief. A beardless male figure stands to the front, with a chlamys on the raised left arm, and with a cup held out in his right hand. On the right is the right arm, and a portion of the skirt of another figure, perhaps female, of equal scale. On the left is the figure, much defaced, of a bearded worshipper.--_Elgin Coll._ Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot 1/4 inch; width, 10 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 361 (84); _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 35, fig. 3. [Sidenote: =793.=] Votive relief to Demeter and Persephonè (?). Two female figures, each wearing a chiton and himation, stand to the front. Between them is the stump of a tree, on which the figure on the right (Persephonè (?)) leans her right elbow.--_Castellani Coll._ Limestone; height, 1 foot; width, 10-3/4 inches. Restorations:--Upper part of ground and frame of relief with top of tree and right forearm of Persephonè. [Sidenote: =794.=]