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ABRETENE

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or **ABRETTINE**, in Ancient Geography, a district of Mytia, in Asia. Hence the epithet Abrettanus 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 Abrettani; inhabiting the country between Ancyra of Phrygia and the river Rhyndacus.