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PATROS

Volume 8 · 56 words · 1778 Edition

(Jeremiah, Ezekiel), appears from the context to be meant of a part of Egypt. Bochart thinks it denotes the Higher Egypt: the Septuagint translate it the country of Pathure; in Pliny we have the Nomos Phaturites in the Thebais; in Ptolemy, Pathyris, probably the metropolis. From the Hebrew appellation Patros comes the gentilious name Pathurism, Moses.