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252 E. S. G. KOBINSON.
Berenice) was fighting against Cretans, presumably
mercenaries, and from the mention of Sarapis and
from the authorship we may safely conclude Egyptian
mercenaries. In view of Callimachus' date the fighting
must have occurred before c. 240. 152
Solinus, 153 on the
other hand, who speaks of the city as Berenice, says,
" Hanc [civitatem] Berenice munivit quae Ptolemaeo
tertio fuit nupta, et in maiori Syrte locavit." The
change of name doubtless took place at the same
teme as Teuchira became Arsinoe (a name connected
especially with Ptolemy II and III) and the port of
Barce Ptolemais. It points to a reorganization of the
Cyrenaica. The word munivit becomes clear if read
in the light of Callimachus' epigram. Berenice did
more than change the name of Euesperides; she
restored it after the damage of war.
It may be suggested that the outline of events
was somewhat as follows: Demetrius ruled several
years over Cyrene and Libya as the future husband of
Berenice, still a child. His conduct (with Apame and
otherwise) gave rise to considerable discontent, and in
252 or later he was murdered by the Egyptian party,
at the head of which stood Berenice, aged perhaps
fourteen to sixteen. 154 The result of this was an out-
break of civil disturbance, but the anti-Egyptian party
seems still to have kept the upper hand. Ecdemus
and Demophanes, the pupils of Arcesilaus, Demetrius'
master, were summoned to reorganize on a federal
basis the affairs of the Cyrenaeans, whose liberty (as
Plutarch says) they championed and maintained. In
152
Call. Ep. xxxvii.
153
154
Solinus, c. 27.
Tenera virgo," Catullus, Coma Berenices.