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PANORMUS

Volume 8 · 148 words · 1778 Edition

(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 Egean sea, near mount Athos.—A fourth, of Samos, (Livy).—A fifth, of Sicily; an ancient city, built by the Phoenicians, (Thucydides); a principal town of the Carthaginians, (Polybius); situate between Lilybeus 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.

(Ptolemy), a port of Attica; its name denoting it to be spacious.—Another, of Epirus, (Strabo, Ptolemy); a large harbour in the heart of the Montes Cerauni, below the citadel Chimera.—A third, of Ionia, (Strabo); near Ephesus, with the temple of the Ephesian Diana.