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PARISII

Volume 13 · 67 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a people of Gallia Celtica, inhabiting the country about the Sequana and Marona. Now a great part of the isle of France.—Parifii (Ptolemy), a people of Britain, having the Brigantes to the north and west, the German sea to the east, and the Coritani to the south, from whom they were separated by the Humber. Now Holdernesse, a peninsula of the East Riding of Yorkshire.