HYPERIA (anc. geog.), the feat of the Phœacians near the Cyclops, (Homer): fome commentators
take it to be Camarina in Sicily; but, according to Hypatius others, fuppofed to be an adjoining ifland, which they take to be Melita, lying in fight of Sicily. And this feems to be confirmed by Apollonius Rhodius. Whence the Phœacians afterwards removed to Coreyra, called Scheria, Phœacia, and Macris; having been expelled by the Phœnicians, who fettled in Melita for commerce, and for commodious harbours, before the war of Troy. (Diodorus Siculus.)