Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 5. s. 14:Diod. ii. 52.) The quarries were chiefly in (Steph. B. s. v. MdpTrrjo-cra; Marpessiacautes, Virg. Aen. vi. 471.) The Parian figs werealso celebrated. (Athen. iii. p. 76.) According toiScylax (p. 22) Paros possessed two harbours. Itschief city, which bore the same name as the island,was on the western coast. It is now called Pa-roikia, and contains several ancient remains. Ona small hill SE. of the city Ross discovered inthe walls of a house the inscription Arifir]TpnsKapTTopopov, and close by some ancient was probably t
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 5. s. 14:Diod. ii. 52.) The quarries were chiefly in (Steph. B. s. v. MdpTrrjo-cra; Marpessiacautes, Virg. Aen. vi. 471.) The Parian figs werealso celebrated. (Athen. iii. p. 76.) According toiScylax (p. 22) Paros possessed two harbours. Itschief city, which bore the same name as the island,was on the western coast. It is now called Pa-roikia, and contains several ancient remains. Ona small hill SE. of the city Ross discovered inthe walls of a house the inscription Arifir]TpnsKapTTopopov, and close by some ancient was probably the site of the sanctuary ofDemeter mentioned in tlie history of Miltiades, fromwhich we learn that the temple was outside thecity and stood upon a hill. (Herod, vi. 134.)Paros had in 1835 only 5300 inhabitants. (Thiersch,Ueber Paros UTidParische Inschriften, in the Ah-handl. der Bayrischen Ahad. of 1834, p. 583, &c.;lioss, Reisen auf den Griech. Inseln, vol. i. p. 44 ;Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 85, &c.) PAETHENIUS. 553. COIN OF PAKOS. PARRHASIA, PARRHASII. [Arcadia,p. 192, b.] PARSICI MONTES, a small chain of mountainsin the western part of Gedrosia, beyond the riverArabres. Forbiger has conjectured that they arcthe same as the present Buskurd Mts. Connecteddoubtless with these mountains, and in the sameliistrict was the Parsis of Ptolemy (vi. 21. § 5),which he calls a metropolis, an opinion in whichIMarcian assents (c. 24, ed. Miiller), and anothertribe whom Ptolemy calls the Parsirae or Parsidae(vi. 21. § 4). It seems not unlikely that these arethe same people whom Arrian calls Pasirae ( 26) and Phny Pasires (vi. 23. s. 26). [V.] PARTHALIS (Plin. vi. 18. s. 22), the namegiven by Pliny to the palace of the rulers of theCalingae, who lived at the mouths of the last edition of Pliny by Sillig reads Protalisf .r the older form, Parthalis. [V.] PARTHANUM, a town in Rhaetia, on the roadfrom Laureacum to Veldidena, where, according tothe Notitia Imperii
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