ARSINOE (anc. geog.), a town of Egypt, on the west side of the Arabian gulf, near its extremity, to the south of Hieropolis (Strabo, Ptolemy); called Cleopatris by some. Another Arsinoe, a town of Cilicia (Ptolemy); and the fifth of that name in Cilicia (Stephanus); with a road or station for ships, (Strabo). A third Arsinoe, in the south of Cyprus, with a port between Citium and Salamis, (Strabo). A fourth, an inland town of Cyprus, called Marium formerly, (Stephanus). A fifth in the north of Cyprus, between Acaamas and Soli, (Strabo); so called from Arsinoe, a queen of Egypt, Cyprus being in the hands of the Ptolemies. A sixth Arsinoe, a maritime town of Cyrene, formerly called Teuchira. A seventh Arsinoe, in the Nomos Arsinoites, to the west of the Heracleotes, on the western bank of the Nile, formerly called Crocodilorum Urbs, (Strabo); the name Arsinoe continued under Adrian, (Coin). Ptolemy calls this Arsinoe an inland metropolis, and therefore at some distance from the Nile, with a port called Ptolemais. An eighth Arsinoe, a maritime town of Lycia; so called by Ptolemy Philadelphus, after the name of his consort, which did not hold long, it afterwards recovering its ancient name
Patara, (Strabo). A ninth, a town of the Troglodyte, near the mouth of the Arabian gulf, which towards Ethiopia is terminated by a promontory called Dire, (Ptolemy). This Arsinoe is called Berenice, and the third of that name in this quarter, with the distinction Epidiros; because situate on a neck of land running out a great way into the sea.