. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . of an extensive com-merce (Procop. de Aed. iv. 9). This circumstanceexplains the reason why so many of its coins are stillextant ; from which we learn that large and cele-brated festivals were held here (Mionnet, i. p. 399—415 ; Eckhel, Doctr. Num. vol. iv. p. 445 ; Rei Num, tab. xiii. 143). According toTzetzes (Chil. iii. 812), it bore at an early periodthe name of Mygdonia ; and at a later one, but notbefore the fourth century of our era, it assumed thename of Heracleia ; which we find sometimes usedalone, and sometimes with the additi
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . of an extensive com-merce (Procop. de Aed. iv. 9). This circumstanceexplains the reason why so many of its coins are stillextant ; from which we learn that large and cele-brated festivals were held here (Mionnet, i. p. 399—415 ; Eckhel, Doctr. Num. vol. iv. p. 445 ; Rei Num, tab. xiii. 143). According toTzetzes (Chil. iii. 812), it bore at an early periodthe name of Mygdonia ; and at a later one, but notbefore the fourth century of our era, it assumed thename of Heracleia ; which we find sometimes usedalone, and sometimes with the additions H. Thraciaeand H. Perinthus. (Procop. /. c. and B. Vand. i. 12;Zosim. i. 62; Justin, xvi. 3 ; Eutrop. ix. 15; xxii. 2 ; Itin. Ant. pp. 175, 176, 323; Regn. Succ. p. 51, &c. On the variations in itsname, see Tzschucke, ad Melam, ii. 2, vol. iii. pt. 102, seq.) Justinian restored the old imperialpalace, and the aqueducts of the city. ( c.) It is now called Eski Eregli, and still con- PERSABORA. 577. tains some ancient ruins and inscriptions. (SeeClarkes Travels, viii. p. 122, sqq.) [T. H. D.] PERISADYES (UeptaaSves, TlepiodSits), an II-lyrian people, near the silver mines of Damastium,whose name seems to be corrupt. (Strab. vii. p. 326 •Kramer and Groskurd, ad loc.~) PERITUR, a place in Lower Pannonia (ItinHieros. p. 562), probably the same as the one men-tioned in the Peuting. Table under the name ofPiretis, and in the Antonine Itinerary (p. 266) underthat of Pyrri or Pyrrum, and situated on the readfrom Petovio to Siscia. (See Wesseling, ad 1. c.) [L. PERIZZITES. [Palaestina, p. 529.]PERMESSUS. [Boeotia, p. 413, a.]PERXE (riepiTj), a small island off the coast ofIonia, which, during an earthquake, became uniiedwith the territory of Miletus. (Plin. ii. 91.) Therewas also a town in Thrace of this name, which ismentioned only by Steph. B. (s. v.) [L. PERNICIACUM, or PERXACUM in the Table,in North Gallia, is placed on a ro
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