PATROS, mentioned by Jeremiah and Ezekiel, appears from the context to be meant of a part of Egypt. Boechart thinks it denotes the Higher Egypt; the Septuagint translate it the country of Pathure; in Pliny we have the Nomos Pathurites in the Thebais; in Ptolemy, Pathuris, probably the metropolis. From the Hebrew appellation Patros comes the gentilicious name Pathrusim. (Moses).