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PANORMUS

Volume 15 · 150 words · 1815 Edition

(Polybius, Paufanias), a town of Achaea, in Peloponnesus, near the promontory Rhium.—Another (Ptolemy, Pliny), a town on the north side of Crete.—A third (Ptolemy), in Macedonia, on the Aegean sea, near Mount Athos.—A fourth, of Samos (Livy).—A fifth, of Sicily; an ancient city, built by the Phoenicians (Thucydides); a principal town of the Carthaginians (Polybius); situated between Lilybaeus and Pelorus (Mela); a Roman colony. Now Palermo, capital of the island, on the north side. E. Long. 13. N. PAN

Panormus N. Lat. 38. 30.—A fifth Panormus of the Thracian Chersonesus, placed by Pliny on the west side of the peninsula, and mentioned by no other writer.

Panormus (Ptolemy), a port of Attica; its name denoting it to be capacious.—Another, of Epirus (Strabo, Ptolemy); a large harbour in the heart of the Montes Cerauni, below the citadel Chimera.—A third of Ionia (Strabo); near Ephesus, with the temple of the Ephesian Diana.