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PARAETONION (Ancient city) LIBYA
Paraetonium (Paraitonion, Scyl. p. 44; Strab. xvii. p. 799; Pomp.
Mela, i. 8. § 2; Plin. v. 5; Ptol. iv. 5. § 4; Steph.: B.; Itin. Anton.; Hierocles),
a town of Marmarica, which was also called Ammonia. (Ammonia, Strab. l. c.) Its
celebrity was owing to its spacious harbour, extending to 40 stadia (Strab. l.
c.; comp. Diod. i. 31), but which appears to have been difficult to make. (Lucian,
Quomodo historic sit, conscribenda, 62.) Paraetonium was 1300 stadia (Strab. l.
c.; 1550 stadia,. Stadiasm. § 19) from Alexandreia. From this point Alexander,
B.C. 332, set out to visit the oracle of Ammon. (Arrian, Anab. iv. 3. § 3.) When
the world's debate was decided at Actium, Antonius stopped at Paraetonium, where
some Roman troops were stationed under Pinarius for the defence of Aegypt. (Plut.
Anton. 70; Flor. iv. 11.) The name occurs in Latin poetry. (Ovid, Met. ix. 772,
Amores, ii. 13. 7; Lucan iii.295.) Justinian fortified it as a frontier fortress
to protect Aegypt from attacks on the W. (Procop. de Aed. vi. 2.) An imperial
coin of the elder Faustina has been assigned to this place, but on insufficient
grounds. (Eckhel, vol. iv. p. 116.) When the Aoulad Aly were sovereigns over this
district, the site, where there were ancient remains, retained the name of Baretoun;
but after their expulsion by the pasha, of Aegypt, it was called Berek Marsah.
(Pacho, Voyage dans la: Marmarique, p. 28.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
AMMONIA (Ancient country) LIBYA
(Ammonioi). A people of Africa, occupying what is now the Oasis of Siwah. According to Herodotus, the Ammonians were a colony of Egyptians and Ethiopians, speaking a language composed of words taken from both those nations.
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