PALATIUM (Pliny), Pallantium (Pausanias), Palanteum (Livy); Pallanteum (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.