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PANNONIA

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(Pliny, Strabo, Dio), an extensive country of Europe, having the Danube on the north, Dalmatia on the south, Noricum on the west, and Moesia on the east. It is divided into Superior and Inferior (Ptolemy, Dio). The common boundary between both were the river Arabo and Mount Cetius, having the Superior to the west, and the Inferior on the east side. This division is thought to be no older than the times of the Antonines. Pannonicus the epithet (Martial).

PANOMPHÆUS, in antiquity, a designation given to Jupiter, because he was said to be the original author of all sorts of divination, having the looks of fate, and out of them revealing either more or less, as he pleased, to inferior demons.