Piĕria

, a small tract of country in The aly or Macedonia, from which the epithet of Pierian was applied to the Muses, and to poetical compositions. Martial , bk. 9 , ltr. 88 , li. 3 .— Horace , bk. 4 , ode 8, li. 20 .――A place between Cilicia and Syria.――One of the wives of Danaus, mother of six daughters, called Actea, Podarce, Dioxippe, Adyte, Ocypete, and Pilarge. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 .――The wife of Oxylus the son of Hæmon, and mother of Ætolus and Laias. Pausanias , bk. 5, ch. 3 .――The daughter of Pythas, a Milesian, .