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NUME´NIUM

NUME´NIUM (Νουμήνιον, Stadiasm. 298), a small island with a spring of fresh water, 55 stadia from Paphos; perhaps the same as that described by Pliny ( “contra Neampaphum Hierocepia,” 5.35). Strabo (xiv. pp. 683, 684) has an inland town Hierocepia.

[E.B.J]

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