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.
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.