I.the country of Palestine, in Syria, Mel. 1, 11, 2; Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66 sq.—Hence,
A. Pă-laestīnus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Palestine: “aqua,” the Euphrates, Ov. F. 2, 464: “Syrus,” Tib. 1, 8, 17 (7, 18): “Palaestini simul Hebraeique liquores,” Stat. S. 5, 1, 213. —In plur.: Pălaestīni , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Palestine, Ov. M. 4, 46; Hier. in Isa. 14, 29; the Philistines, Vulg. Gen. 21, 33.—
B. Pălaestīnensis , e, adj., Palestinian, Spart. Sev. 9.