PANORMUS (Polybius, Pausanias), a town of Achaea, in Peloponnesus, near the promontory Rhium.—Another (Ptolemy, Pliny), a town on the north side of Crete.—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.
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N. Lat. 38. 30.—A sixth Panormus of the Thracian Chersonesus, placed by Pliny on the west side of the peninsula, and mentioned by no other writer.