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Headword:
*pa/nion
Adler number: pi,202
Translated headword: Panion, Panium
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a place.[1]
There too [is] a castle by the seashore, which is called Panion, towards the region of
Herakleia.[2]
*pa/nion: o)/noma to/pou. e)/nqa kai\ ka/stron para\ ai)gialw=|, o(\ le/getai *pa/nion, pro\s toi=s th=s *(hraklei/as me/resi.
Notes:
[1]
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. registers two toponyms of this name, one in
Cilicia and one in Palestine. For the latter see also
Josephus,
Jewish War 1.404, cited by Adler. And see also next note.
[2] Not far west of
Herakleia in the Propontis (Sea of Marmora) is Panion/Theodosiopolis, present-day Barbaros.
Princeton Encyclopaedia of Classical Sites, s.v. Herakleia
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography
Translated by: Alex Gottesman on 14 December 2002@09:08:08.
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