[Meaning] a city [of that name].
*(irh/: po/lis.
In
Messenia; cf.
Homer,
Iliad 9.150 (web address 1);
Strabo 8.4.5;
Pausanias 4.30.1 (Web address 2). The name means "Holy", and
Homer also calls
Troy *)/ilios i(rh/, "Holy Ilium" (
Iliad 4.46, etc. [Web address 3]). (H)ire is also the way Lucian(?) refers in the Ionic dialect to the city (otherwise known as
Hierapolis) he describes in
On the Syrian Goddess (1).
cf.
iota 593,
iota 595.
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