PERPERE´NA
PERPERE´NA (
Περπερήνα), a place in Mysia, on the south-east of Adramyttium, in the neighbourhood of which there were copper mines and good vineyards.
It was said by some to be the place in which Thucydides had died. (
Strab. xiii. p.607;
Plin. Nat. 5.32;
Steph. B. sub voce Παρπάρων, from whom we learn that some called the place Perine; while
Ptol. 5.2.16, calls it Perpere or Permere; Galen,
Περὶ εὐχυμίας, p. 358; comp. Sestini, p. 75.) Some, without sufficient reason, regard Perperena as identical with Theodosiupolis, mentioned by Hierocles (p. 661). [L. S.