Paltus
Πάλτος
Paltus (Πάλτος: Eth. Παλτηνός), a town of Syria upon the coast, subject to the island of Aradus, which was at no great distance from it. According to some accounts Memnon was buried in the neighbourhood of Paltus. Pococke places it at Boldo; Shaw at the ruins at the mouth of the Melleck, 6 miles from Jebilee, the ancient Gabala. (Strab. xv pp. 728, 735; Ptol. 5.15.3; Cic. Fam. 12.1. 3; Plin. Nat. 5.20. s. 18; Mela, 1.12; Steph. B. sub voce Pococke, vol. i. p. 199; Shaw, p. 324, Oxf. 1738.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.