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CYRENE.—Capital of Libya (Tripoli) in N. Africa (Act_2:10), the home of numerous Jews who with the ‘Libertines’ (freedmen from Rome?) and Alexandrians had a synagogue of their own at Jerusalem (Act_6:9). Many of these became Christians, as Simon and his sons (doubtless), Mar_15:21; Lucius, Act_13:1; and those in Act_11:20 who preached to the ‘Greeks’ (v.l. ‘Hellenists’).
A. J. Maclean.