PARTHE´NIUM MARE
PARTHE´NIUM MARE (
Παρθενικὸν πέλυγος, Greg. Naz.
Or. xix.), the eastern part of the Mare Internum, between Egypt and Cyprus. (
Amm. Marc. 14.8.10: from which writer it also appears that it was sometimes called the Issiac Sea--“a, vespera (Aegyptus) Issiaco disjungitur mari, quod quidam nominavere Parthenium,” 22.15.2.)
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