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Mercury and Apollo Theoxenius. Noted for its woollen cloaks. Tricala.

Pelodes ("muddy haven") portus, a bay of Cestrine, in Epirus, at Buthrotum.

Pelontium, a town of Tarraconensis, bet. Ovetum w. and Concana S.e.

Pelopia, an early name of Thyatira in Lydia.

Pelopidis scopuli, rocks oflF Methone penin., in Argolis.

Peloponnesus, " the island of Pelops," prius Apia, a peninsula of Europe, the portion of Greece s. of the Isthmus Co-rinthiacus, bounded N. by Corinthiacus sin., s. by Libycum mare, w. by Ionium mare, E. by the yEgean. Named after Pelops, who migrated hither from Phrygia. In area 7800 m.; in circumference, the sinuosities of the coast included, 700 m. In shape resembling a mulberry-leaf, whence its modern appellation. Morea.

Pelok.iarca, a town of Mesopotamia, on the Tigris, bet. Gibrata and Dura.

Pelorias (Peloritana regio), a district of Sicily, adjacent to Pelorum prom.

Pelorum (Pelorias, Peloris, Pelorus) prom., the extreme E.n.e. prom, of Sicily, over against Scylla prom. Capo Faro.

Pelorus fi., a r. of Armenia Maj., falling into the Cyrus, N. of the w. extremity of Lychnitis lacus. Arazi.

Pelt,e, a town of Phrygia Mag., bet. Msean-der fl., near its source (n.), and Glaucus fl., N.w. of Apamea Cibotus (26).

Peltenus campus, the country about Peltse, in Phrygia Mag.

Peltuinum, a town of the Vestini, Picen., on Aternus fl., L. Church of San Paolo or PeltuinQj at Praia.

Pelusiacum ostium nili, the E. mouth of the Nile. Named from Pelusium.

Pelusium (Sin, Pheromi), "marshy," a city of Lower Egypt, on Pelusiacum ostium, R., 2 m. from its mouth, S.e. of Da-miathis. The key of Egypt in that direc­tion.

Peme, a town of Heptanomis, Egypt, on the Nile,bet. Tasdrumandlseum (20). Bembc.

Penelocus, a town of the Nantuates, Alpes Penmnse, on Lemanus lacus, E. below Vi-viscus.

Penest.e, I. a tribe of aborigines in Thes-saly, who became slaves to the triumphant invaders, as the Helotes in Lacedsemon. •** II. a people of Illyria, bounded N. by the Cavii, s. by the Dassaretse and Eordeti, w. by the Albani, E. by Macedonia.

Peneus fl., I. a r. of Epea, in Elis, rising in Erymanthus m., and falling into the Ionian sea below Coryne. Igliaco, II. a r. of

Thessaly, rising in Pindus m., and falling

into the Thermaicua sin. N. of Myrse, by

what is called the Lycastomo " wolfs

mouth.'* Salembria. Peniel (Penuel), a town at the ford of Jab-

bok'fl., where Jacob wrestled with the

angel. Rebuilt by Jeroboam. Pennini m., i. q. Alpes Penninae. Penocrttcium, a town of the Cornavii, Brit.

Rom., bet. Uxacoma and Etocetum. Penoxullum prom., a pr. of Britannia Barb.

N.e. Ord Head. Penpedunni, a maritime people of Novem

Populana, towards the Pyrenees. About

Pincde. Pentachira, a fortress of Phrygia Mag., on

Mceander fl. Pentachomia, a town of Chalybonitis, on

the Euphrates.

Pentademitve, a people of Mysia s. Pentapolis, the maritime frontier of Cy-

renaica, bet. Eccius fl. and Poliurus fl.

Named from its five chief towns, Berenice,

Arsinoe, Ptolemais, Cyrene, and Apollonia. Pextapotamia, the district of India watered

by the five rivers, Hydaspes, Acesines,

Hydraotes, Hyphasis, and Xeradrus. Pun-

jaub. PENTASCH03;NON,atownofCasiotis, in Egypt,

on Sirbonis palus, s. bet. Pelusium (20)

and Casium. Pentedactylus m., a m. of Dodecaschoenus,

on the Red sea, s. of Berenice. Pentele, a demus of Attica, of the tribe

Antiochis, at the s. foot of Pentelicus m.

Monastery of Pcnteli. Pentelicus m., a m. of Attica, the centre of

the Brilessus, Hymettus, &c., range. Fa­mous for its marble-quarries. Pentelikon. PENTELOPHOi,a village of Laconia, 7 furlongs

from Sparta.

Penthile, a town of Lesbos ins. Pentri, a tribe of Samnites, occupying the

central or more hilly (whence their name)

portion of Samnium. Peor (Phogor) m., a summit of Abarim m.,

in Amoritis, w. of Hesbon. On it was a

temple of Baal. Peos-artemidos, vide Speos. Peparethus, I. priiix Evaenus, an isl. of

Thessaly, in the .^gean, E. of Halonnesus

ins. Settled by Cretans, under Staphylus.

Noted for its wine and oil. Piperi. II. its

town on the N. coast. Destroyed by the

Romans. Peperene ins., an isl. of India i. Gangem, in

Colchicus sin. Pephnus ins., I. an isl. of Laconia, close to

the cognominal town. The birth-place of

theDioscuri. Pekno. II.atownofLaconia,