Parthenium Mare
Παρθενικὸν πέλυγος
Parthenium 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,
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