Plinthine
Πλινθίνη
Plinthine (Πλινθίνη, Strab. xvii. p.799; Ptol. 4.5.8; Steph. B. sub voce the frontier town of Aegypt towards Libya. It stood at the head of the Plinthinetic bay, in latitude 29° 40‘ N., just within the Mareotic nome, but beyond the limits of the Delta proper. There are no remains enabling us to determine the exact site of this town; but it cannot have been far from Taposiris (Abousir), of which the ruins are still visible about 25 miles W. of Alexandreia. An inferior kind of wine was produced in this region of Aegypt; and Hellanicus (Fr. 155) says that the people of Plinthine originally discovered the virtues of the grape. (Athen. 1.34.)
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.