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Updated: May 2, 2025
But, in the first place, Himilco's report was certainly not written in Greek, but in Phoenician, and Avienus seems merely to have translated that report. Moreover, the word iepa begins with a very strong aspirate, equivalent to a consonant, while there are few vowels softer in any language than the first in Erin or Ierne.
Lingard, evidently perplexed by this expression, asks himself, "What might its origin have been?" and suggests that the name of Ierne the same as Erin having been given to Ireland by the ancients, and the Greek iepa holy bearing a great resemblance to it, Avienus might have thus fallen into a very natural mistake of confounding the one with the other.
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