POSEIDO´NIUM
POSEIDO´NIUM or
POSI´DIUM (
Ποσειδώνιον,
Thuc. 4.129; Posidium,
Liv. 44.11), the SW. cape of Pallene, probably so called from a temple to Poseidon, which still retains its name vulgarly pronounced
Posídhi. (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 156.) Müller (
Geog. Graec. Min. vol. i. p. 52) identifies it with the THRAMBEIS of Scylax (p. 26; comp.
Θεράμβω, Hdt. 7.123;
Θράμβος: Eth.
Θραμβούσιος, Steph. B. sub voce Lycophr. 1405), which Leake and Kiepert place near the Canastraeum Prom.; but as Scylax interposes Scione between them, Thrambeis corresponds better with
Posídhi.
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E.B.J]
