Pallēne

, a small peninsula of Macedonia, formerly called Phlegra , situate above the bay of Thermæ on the Ægean sea, and containing five cities, the principal of which is called Pallene. It was in this place, according to some of the ancients, that an engagement happened between the gods and the giants. Livy , bk. 31 , ch. 45 ; bk. 45 , ch. 30 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 4 , li. 391 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 15 , li. 357 .――A village of Attica, where Minerva had a temple, and where the Pall an tides chiefly resided. Hero dot us , bk. 1 , chs. 1, 161.— Plutarch , These us .