(Pliny); called also Pergamea, (Virgil); Pergamia, (Plutarch; a town of Crete, built Pergamum, built by Agamemnon in memory of his victory, (Vel- Pergamus leius). Here was the burying-place of Lycurgus (Ari- stoxenus, quoted by Plutarch). It was situated near Cydonia (Servius); to what point not said: but Scylax helps him out, who places the Daetynnean temple of Diana, which stood near Cydonia (Strabo), to the north of the territory of Pergamia.—Another PERGAMUM (Pliny, Strabo); a town of Myifa, situated on the Caï- cus, which runs by it. It was the royal residence of Eumenes, and of the kings of the Attali (Livy). There an ancient temple of Ædeulapius stood; an aly- lum (Tacitus). The ornament of Pergamum was the royal library, vying with that of Alexandria in Egypt; the kings of Pergamum and Egypt rivalling each other in this respect (Pliny). Strabo ascribes this rivalry to Eumenes. Plutarch reckons up 200,000 volumes in the library at Pergamum. Here the membrance perga- mena, whence the name parchment, were invented for the use of books, (Varro, quoted by Pliny). The coun- try of Galen, and of Oribasius chief physician to Julian the Apollote (Eunapius), called by some the age of Galen. Here P. Scipio died (Cicero). Attalus son of Eumenes dying without issue, bequeathed his kingdom to the Roman people, who reduced it to a province, (Strabo). Pergameus, the epithet (Martial). Here was one of the nine conventus juridici, or assemblies of the Asia Romana, called Pergamenus, and the ninth in order (Pliny); which he also calls jurifiliatio Per- gamena.