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Pteros

Pteros one of four islands--the other three being Labatanis, Coboris, and Sambracate--lying off the coast of the Sabaei in Arabia, and corresponding in number, and the last of the four in name, with the Sohar islands. (Plin. Nat. 6.28. s. 32; Forster, Arabia, vol. ii. p. 230.)

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.