PANORMUS, (Polybius, Pausanias), a town of Achaia, in Peloponnesus, near the promontory Rhium. — Another, (Ptolemy, Pliny,) a town on the north side of Crete. — A third, (Ptolemy), in Macedonia, on the Egean sea, near mount Athos. — A fourth, of Samos, (Livy.) — A fifth, of Sicily; an ancient city, built by the Phoenicians, (Thucydides); a principal town of the Carthaginians, (Polybius); situate between Lilybaeus and Pelorus, (Meis); a Roman colony. Now Palermo, capital of the island, on the north side. E. Long. 13. N. Lat. 38. 30. — A sixth Panormus of the Thracia Chersonesus, placed by Pliny on the west side of the peninsula, and mentioned by no other writer.