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PALINURI PROMONTORIUM

Volume 15 · 33 words · 1810 Edition

(Virgil, Velleius), with a cognominal port, was situated at the south extremity of the Sinus Paflagoniae on the coast of Lucania: so called from Palinurus, Æneas's steerman, who there perished (Mela, Dionysius Halicarnassus).