Parætonium

, a town of Egypt at the west of Alexandria, where Isis was worshipped. The word Parætonius is used to signify Egyptian, and is sometimes applied to Alexandria, which was situate in the neighbourhood. Strabo , bk. 17 .— Florus , bk. 4 , ch. 11 .— Lucan , bk. 3 , li. 295 ; bk. 10 , li. 9 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 9 , li. 712 ; Amores , bk. 2 , poem 13, li. 7 .