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ABRETTENE

Volume 8 · 66 words · 1810 Edition

or **ABRETTINE**, in Ancient Geography, a district of Mytha, in Asia. Hence the epithet *Abretteneus* given to 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 Augustus. The people were called *Abrettenei*; inhabiting the country between Ancyrta of Phrygia and the river Rhindacus.