Note 2 — II. STRABO, MELA, PLINY, PTOLEMY.
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The Iernis of Onomacritus (who is supposed to have written about B.C. 535, in the days of Pisistratus). Its authenticity is defended by Ruhnkenius (Epist. Crit. 2), and by Archbishop Usher (Ecclesiar. Antiq., chap. 16), while Camden (Britan.) has claimed the island to be England. Adrian Junius, a Dutch poet of the sixteenth century, quoted by Moore (History, chap. 1), thus alluded to Ireland having been known to the Argonauts:
“Illa ego sum Graiis olim glacialis Ierne Dicta, et Jasoni puppis bene cognita navis.”
We shall afterwards find Sibbald identifying Ierne with Strathearn.