mentioned by Jeremiah and Ezekiel, appears from the context to mean a part of Egypt. Bocchini thinks it denotes Upper Egypt; the Septuagint translate it the country of Padnire; Pliny speaks of the Nomos Patharites in the Thebais; and Ptolemy mentions Pathyrus, which was probably the metropolis. From the Hebrew appellation Potros comes the gentilis name Ruthanism.