Now in the time of Battus the founder of the colony, who ruled for forty years, and of his son Arcesilaus who ruled for sixteen, the inhabitants of Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene were no more in number than when they had first gone out to the colony.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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