Here, however, the other streets do not seem to have been planned uniformly at right angles to the two main thoroughfares, and the rectangular scheme is therefore less complete and definite than at Selinus.

Cyrene, unfortunately, resembles Selinus in another respect, that we have no proper knowledge of the date when its main streets were laid out.

It was founded somewhere in the seventh century B.C.and Pindar, in an ode written about 466 B.C., mentions a great processional highway there.

Whether this was one of the two roads above mentioned is not clear.

But it is not probable, since Pindar's road seems hardly to have been inside the city at all.[20] [20] Smith and Porcher, _Discoveries at Cyrene_ (1864), plate 40; hence Studnickza, _Kyrene_ (1890, p.