PAROS, (anc. geog.), an island of the Ægean sea, one of the Cyclades, with a strong cognominal town, 38 miles distant from Delos, (Pliny, Nepos). Anciently called Pastye and Minoa, (Pliny); also Demetrias, Zacynthus, Hyria, Hylessa, and Gabarnii, (Nicanor). The country of Archilochus, the Iambic poet, (Strabo). An island famous for its white marble, (Virgil, Horace, Ovid), called lychnites, because dug with lamps, (Pliny).