PAEA´NIUM
PAEA´NIUM (
Παιάνιον), a town, in Aetolia, near the Achelous, a little S. of Ithoria, and N. of Oeniadae, which was on the other side of the river.
It was only 7 stadia in circumference, and was destroyed by Philip, B.C. 219. (
Plb. 4.65.) Paeanium was perhaps rebuilt, and may be the Same town as Phana (
φάνα), which was taken by the Achaeans, and which we learn from the narrative in Pausanias was near the sea. (
Paus. 10.18.) Stephanus mentions Phana as a town of Italy ; but for
Πόλις Ἰταλίας, we ought probably to read
Πόλις Αἰτωλίας. (Steph.
B. s. v. φάναι.)