(anc. geog.) the port of Arsinoe, situated on the west branch of the Nile, which concur to form the island called Nomos Heracleotes, to the south of the vertex of the Delta.

(Strabo); the largest and most considerable town of the Thebais, or Higher Egypt, and in nothing short of Memphis; governed in the manner of a Greek republic; situated on the west side of the Nile, almost opposite to Coptos.—Another, of Cyrenaica, anciently called Barce.—A third of the Troglodytica, surnamed Epitherus, from the chase of wild beasts, as elephants; lying in the same parallel with Meroë, (Strabo); on the Arabian gulf, (Pliny); 4820 stadia to the south of Berenice.—A fourth, of Galilee, anciently called Aca, or Accon; made a Roman colony under the emperor Claudius, (Pliny).—A fifth, of Pamphylia; situate near the river Melas, on the borders of Cilicia Alpera.