PARIUM, (anc. geog.), a noble city of Myfia Minor, with a port on the Propontis; called Adrasia by Homer, according to Pliny; but Strabo distinguishes them: according to others, the Pasitos of Homer. Pariani, the people, (Strabo). The birth-place of Neoptolemus, surnamed Glossographus, (Strabo). Here stood a Cupid equal, in exquisite workmanship, to the Cnidian Venus.