A place called Alybe is mentioned in Homer, Iliad 2.855 as being far away (and a source of silver). The simple gloss in Hesychius alpha3282, 'a Trojan city', can therefore not be right; however, its location generated different views, as can be seen in e.g. Strabo 12.3.20-24 and 13.1.45; also, more faintly, in Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. One tradition -- which recognised the name as Chalybe -- placed it in the east, connecting the Chalybes with the Chaldeans (chi 13); another in the west, where it was the name (which explains the otherwise cryptic gloss here, also in ps.-Zonaras) of one of the pillars of Hercules, at the mouth of the Mediterranean (cf. alpha 1143, beta 537).