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ABRETENNE

Volume 1 · 63 words · 1778 Edition

(Strabo;) Abrettene, (Stephanus;) a district of Mytilene, in Asia. Hence the epithet Abrettene given Jupiter, (Strabo;) whose priest was Cleon, formerly at the head of a gang of robbers, and who received many and great favours at the hand of Antony, but afterwards went over to Agrippa. The people were called Abrettene; inhabiting the country between Ancyra of Phrygia, and the river Rhyndacus.