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Eth. Polichnites. A town of Crete, whose territory bordered upon that of Cydonia. (Thuc. ii. 85.) In B.C. 429 the Athenians assisted the inhabitants of Polichna in making war upon the Cydonians. (Thuc. l. c.) Herodotus also mentions the Polichnitae, and says that this people and the Praesii were the only people in Crete who did not join the other Cretans in the expedition against Camicus in Sicily in order to revenge the death of Minos (vii. 170; Steph. B. s. v.). Cramer (Ancient Greece, vol. iii. p. 380) supposes the ruins at Polis S. of Armyro to be those of Polichna, which Pashley, however, regards as those of Lappa or Lampa. (Crete, vol. i. p. 83.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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