Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Ptolemāïs

（Πτολεμαΐς).

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1.

Also called Acé (Ἀκή) (in Old Test. Acco; AkkaArab. , Fr. St. Jean d'Acre, Eng. Acre), a celebrated city on the coast of Phœnicia, south of Tyre, and north of Mount Carmel, lies at the bottom of a bay surrounded by mountains, in a position marked out by nature as a key of the passage between CoeleSyria and Palestine. It is one of the oldest cities of Phœnicia, being mentioned in the Book of Judges (i. 31).

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2.

(At or near El-Lahum), a small town of Middle Egypt, in the Nomos Arsinoïtes.

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3.

P. Hermii (Menschie), a city of Upper Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile, below Abydos.

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4.

P. Theron, or Epithēras, a port on the Red Sea, on the coast of the Troglodytae.

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5.

Now Tolmeïta, or Tolometa, on the northwestern coast of Cyrenaïca, one of the five great cities of the Libyan Pentapolis.