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 PEROrULA. Lv. xsxviii. 37.) We learn from the Acts of the Apostles (xiv. 24, 25) that Paul and Barnabas preached the gospel at Perge. (Conip. Acts, xiii. 13.) In the eccle.siastical notices and in Hierocles (p. 679) Perge appears as the metropolis of Pam- phylia. (Comp. Steph. B. j>-. v. ; Eckhel, JJoctr. Num. i. 3, p. 12.) There are considerable ruins of Perge about 16 miles to the north-east of Adalia, at a place now called EsM-Kalesl. (Comp. Leake, Asia Minor, ip. 132; Texier, Descript. de I'Aeie Mill., where the ruins are figured in 19 plates; Fel- lows, A.<!ia Minor, p. 190, &c.) [L. S.] PEKIMU'LA(n€pi>oyAa, Ptol. vii. 2. § 5), the name of a town of some commercial importance on the W. side of the Sinus Magnus (or gulf of Siani), on a tongue of land anciently called the Aurea Cliersonesus, and now known by the name of Ma- lacca. Lassen places it in lat. 7° N. In its imme- diate neighbourhood was a small bay or indentation of the coast, which was called the Sinus Perinmlicus (UfpifxuvKLKhs KiiATTos). [v.] PERBIU'LICUS SINUS. [Perimula.] PEPJNTHUS {h nipivdos, Ptoh iii. 11. § 6, viii. 11. § 7 ; Xenoph. Anab. vii. 2. § 8 : Eth. Xlipiv6io%), a great and flourishing town of Thrace, situated on the Propontis. It lay 22 miles W. of Selymbiia, on a small peninsula (Plin. iv. 18) of tlie bay which bears its name, and was built like an amphitheatre, on the declivity of a liill (Diod. xvi. 76.) It was originally a Samian colony (Marcian, p. 29 ; Plut. Qu. Gr. 56), and, according to Syncel- lus (p. 238), was founded about b. c. 599. Panof ka, however (p. 22), makes it contemporary with Samo- thrace, that is about b. c. 1000. It was particu- larly renowned for its obstinate defence against Piiilip of Macedon (Diod. xvi. 74 — 77; Plut. Phoc. 14). At that time it appears to have been a more important and flourishing town even than Byzantium; and being both a harbour and a point at which several main roads met, it was the seat of an extensive com- merce (Procop. de Aed. iv. 9). This circumstance explains the reason why so many of its coins are still extant ; from which we learn that large and cele- brated festivals were held here (Mionnet, i. p. 399 — 415 ; Eckhel, Doctr. Num. vol. iv. p. 445 ; Morell. Spec. -Rei Num, tab. xiii. 143). According to Tzetzes (CM. iii. 812), it bore at an early period the name of Mygdonia ; and at a later one, but not before the fourth century of our era, it assumed the name of Heracleia ; which we find sometimes used alone, and sometimes with the additions H. Thraciae and H. Periiithus. (Procop. /. c. and B. Vand. i. 12; Zosim. i. 62; Justin, xvi. 3 ; Eutrop. i.. 15; Amm. Marc. xxii. 2 ; Itin. Ant. pp. 175, 176, 323 ; Jorn. de lie/jn. Sticc. p. 51, &c. On the variations in its name, see Tzschucke, ad Melam, ii. 2, vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 102, seq.) Justinian restored the old imperial palace, and the aqueducts of the city. (Procop. i-c.) It is now called Eski Ererjli, and still con- PERSABORA. 577 COIN OF PEia:<TlIl'S. tains some ancient ruins and inscriptions. (See Clarke's Travels, viii. p. 122, sqq.) [T. H. D.] PERISADYES {Uepicadves, nepioaSies), an II- lyrian people, near the silver mines of Damastium, whose name seems to be corrupt. (Strab. vii. p. 326 • Kramer and Groskurd, ad loc.) PERITUR, a place in Lower Pannonia (Itin. Eieros. p. 562), probably the same as the one men- tioned in the Peuting. Table under the name of Piretis, and in the Antonine Itinerary (p. 266) undur that of Pyrri or Pyrrum, and situated on the road from Pelovio to Siseia. (See Wesseling, ad It. Ilieros. I. c.) [L. S.] PERIZZl'TES. [Palaestina, p. 529.] PERMESSUS. [BoEOTiA, p. 413, a.] PERNE (ITe'pi'rj), a small island oft' the coast of Ionia, which, during an earthquake, became united with the territory of Jliletus. (Plin. ii. 91.) There was also a town in Thrace of this name, which is mentioned only by Steph. B. (s. v.) [L. S.] PERNICIACUM, or PERNACUM in the Table, in North Gallia, is placed on a road from Bagacum (^Bavai) to Aduatuca {TongerJi). The road passed from Bagacum to Geminiacum (^Gemblou). From Geminiacum to Perniciacum is xii. in the Anton. Itin., and xiiii. in the Table; and from Perniciacum to Aduatuca is xiv. in the Itin. and xvi. in the Table. The road is generally straight, but there is no jilace which we can identify as the site of Perni- ciacum ; and the geographers do not agree on any position. [G. L.] PERORSI (n^popaoL, Tlvpopffot, Ptol. iv. 6. §§ 16,17; Polyb.a;;. Plin. v. l.s.8,vi. 35), a people of Libya, subdued by Suetonius Paullinus, who in- habited a few fertile spots spread over the long extent of maritime countiy between the Canarii, who dwelt opposite to the Fortunate Islands, and the Pharusii, who occupied the banks of the Senegal. (Leake, London Geog. Journ. vol. ii. p. 17.) [E.B. J.] PERPERE'NA (JlipTTep-t]vo.), a place in Mysia, on the south-east of Adramyttium, in the neigh- bourhood of which there were copper mines and good vineyards. It was said by some> to be the place in which Thucydides had died. (Strab. xiii. p. 607 ; Plin. V. 32 ; Steph. B. s. v. Ylapirapoov, from whom we learn that some called the place Ferine; while Ptol. V. 2. § 16, calls it Perpere or Permere; Galen, Hepl (vxvfj-ias, p. 358 ; comp. Sestini, p. 75.) Some, without sufficient reason, regard Perperena as identical with Theodosiupolis, mentioned by Hiero- cles (p. 661). [L. S.] PERRAiNTHES. [Ambuacia.] PERRHAEBI, PERRHAE'BIA. [Tiiessalia.] PERRHIDAE. [Attica, p. 330, a.] PERSABOTiA (TlripcTaSwpa, Zosim. iii. 17), a very strong place in Mesopotamia, on the W. bank of the Euphrates, to which the emperor Julian came in his march acro.ss that country. Zosinms, who gives a detailed account of its siege, states that it was in size and importance second only to Ctesi- phon. Ammianus, speaking of llie same war, calls the place Pirisabora (xxiv. c. 2) ; and Libanius Soph, mentions a city of the same name as the then ruling king of Persia, evidently sujiposing that it de- rived its name from Sapor (or Slialqnir). {Orat. Fim. p. 315.) Forbiger has conjectured that it is represented by the present Auhar, and that it was situated near the part of the river Euphrates whence the canal Nahr-sares flows, and no great distance from the Sipphara of Ptolemy (v. 18. § 7). [V.J pp