PALATIUM (Pliny), Pallantium (Pausanias), Palantium (Livy); Pallantium (Solinus). This last is the true writing; the great grandfather of Evander, from whom it took its name, being called Pallas, not Palas; A town of Arcadia, which concurred to form Megalopolis (Pausanias). From it the Palatium, or Mons Palatinus, takes also its name, according to Virgil and Pliny.
PALATIUM Dioclesiani; the villa of Dioclesian, near Salona, where he died, (Eusebius). Afterwards called Spalatium; which rose to a considerable city from the ruins of Salona; situated in Dalmatia on the Adriatic. Now Spalotto, or Spalatro.