Panormus

, now called Palermo , a town of Sicily, built by the Phœnicians, on the north-west part of the island, with a good and capacious harbour. It was the strongest hold of the Cart hag in i ans in Sicily, and it was at last taken with difficulty by the Romans. Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 14 , li. 262 .――A town of the Thracian Cher sones us.――A town of Ionia, near Ephesus,――Another in Crete,――in Macedonia,――Achaia,――Samos.――A Me enian who insulted the religion of the Lacedæmonians. See: Gonippus .