These places were so named from the Sun, or Apollo, styled not only Λυκος, but Λυκωρευς and Λυκωρειος: and the city Lucoreia was esteemed the oldest in the world, and said to have been built after a deluge by Lycorus, the son of Huamus. Pausan. l. 10. p. 811. Ὑιωνος Φοιβοιο Λυκωρειοιο Καφαυρος. Apollon. l. 4. v. 1489. Λυκωρειοιο, αντι του Δελφικου. Scholia. ibid. It properly signified _Solaris_. [311] Virgil. Æneid. l. 3. v. 274. [312] Gruter's Inscriptions. vol. 1. p. MLXXXII. n. 8. [313] Plutarch. in Artaxerxe. p. 1012. [314] Ctesias in Persicis. So Hesychius Τον γαρ ἡλιον ὁι Περσαι Κυρον λεγουσιν· Hence Κυρος, αρχων, βασιλευς, ibid. also Κυρος, εξουσια. [315] Strabo, speaking of the river Cur, or Cyrus. l. 11. p. 764. [316] Quid tibi cum Cyrrhâ? quid cum Permessidos undâ? Martial. l. 1. epigram. 77. v. 11. Phocaicas Amphissa manus, scopulosaque Cyrrha. Lucan. l. 3. v. 172. Κιῤῥαν, επινειον Δελφων. Pausan. l. 10. p. 817. [317] Cyrenaici Achorem Deum (invocant) muscarum multitudine pestilentiam adferente; quæ protinus intereunt, postquam litatum est illi Deo. Plin. l. 10. c. 28. See also Clement. Alexand. Cohort. p. 33. Some late editors, and particularly Harduin, not knowing that Achor was worshipped at Cyrene, as the Θεος απομυιος, have omitted his name, and transferred the history to Elis. But all the antient editions mention Achor of Cyrene; _Cyrenaici Achorem Deum, &c_. I have examined those printed at Rome, 1470, 1473. those of Venice, 1472, 1476, 1487, 1507, 1510. those of Parma, 1476, 1479, 1481. one at Brescia, 1496. the editions at Paris, 1516, 1524, 1532. the Basil edition by Froben, 1523: and they all have this reading. The edition also by Johannes Spira, 1469, has Acorem, but with some variation. The spurious reading, _Elei myagrum Deum_, was, I imagine, first admitted into the text by Sigismund Gelenius, who was misled by the similarity of the two histories. Harduin has followed him blindly, without taking any notice of the more antient and true reading. [318] Stephanus Byzantinus. See also Scholia on Callimachus. Hymn. in Apoll. v. 91. [319] Ὁιδ' ουπω Κυρης πηγης εδυναντο πελασσαι Δωριεες, πυκινην δε ναπαις Αζειλιν εναιον. Callimachus. Hymn. in Apoll. v. 88. [320] Plin. N. H. l. 5. p. 249. [321] L. 1. c. 8. p. 43. [322] Justin, speaking of the first settlement made at Cyrene, mentions a mountain Cura, which was then occupied. Montem Cyram, et propter amœnitatem loci, et propter _fontium_ ubertatem occupavere. l. 13. c. 7. [323] Conformably to what I say, Ekron is rendered Ακκαρων by the Seventy. 1 Samuel c. 6. v. 15. So also Josephus Antiq. Jud. l. 6. c. 1. p. 312. In Achore vestigia Accaronis: Selden de Dijs Syris. Syntag. 6. p. 228. Ου ζητησουσι Μυιαν θεον Ακκαρων. Gregory Nazianz. Editio Etonens. 1610. Pars secunda cont. Julianum. p. 102. In Italy this God was styled by the Campanians, Ἡρακλης Απομυιος. See Clemens. Cohort. p. 33.