PANORMUS (Polybius, Paufanias), a town of Achaia, in Peloponnesus, near the promontory Rhium. — Another (Ptolemy, Pliny), a town on the north side of Cretæ. — A third (Ptolemy), in Macedonia, on the Ægean sea, near mount Athos. — A fourth, of Samos (Livy). — A fifth, of Sicily; an ancient city, built by the Phœnicians (Thucydides); a principal town of the Carthaginians (Polybius); situated between Lilybæus and Pelorus (Mela): 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.