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BENGAZI. 
dens of the Hesperides, we have pointed out all that now' occurs to 
us of any interest in the neighbourhood of the town of Bengazi ; and 
we submit these suggestions to the judgment of others better qua- 
lified than ourselves to decide the points in question. 
It appears to have been from Berenice, the daughter of Magas, 
who was married to Ptolemy Philadelphus, that the city of Hes- 
peris changed its ancient name into that which afterwards dis- 
tinguished it But the name of Berenicidm, which seems to have 
been conferred upon the inhabitants of this part of the Cyrenaica, was 
not by any means generally adopted ; for we find that these people 
continued notwithstanding to be called by their former appellation 
of Hesperides. It is, however, somewhat singular that Pomponius 
Mela, wBo flourished towards the middle of the first century, and 
nearly a hundred years after the extinction of the dynasty of the 
Lagides, should have mentioned this city under its ancient name of 
Hesperis only ; while he gives its Ptolemaic name, Arsinoe, to 
Teuchira, and distinguishes the port of Barca by its appellation of 
Ptolemaisf. Yet the name of Berenice continued to be used by 
other writers long after the age of Mela ; and Pliny, who flourished 
nearly at the same time with this geographer, mentions the city of 
the Hesperides by that title. It is probable that a name of such poeti- 
cal celebrity as that which gave place to Berenice was not easily laid 
aside by the lovers of literature ; and we find that Ptolemy thought 
* B£|sv()ciSai alia Bs^evmss rm Mayas' huyotn^os, yuvMx.os 5s kou TlroXEf/.MQv, <uvo/xa6r)>jav 
BsgsvDtiSai 01 S'«pi.oTai. (Steph. Byzant. ■v.) 
t Urbes Hesperia, Apollonia, Ptolemais, Arsinoe, atque (unde terris nomen est) 
ipsa Gyrene. (De Situ Orbis, Lib. i. c. 8 .) 
