OEENSES, a people of Africa, who occupied the country between the two Syrtes on the Mediterranean.  Their city was called Oea, now Tripoli.

OPITERGIUM, now Oderzo, in the territory of Venice.

ORDOVICES, a people who inhabited what we now call Flintshire,
Denbighshire, Carnarvon, and Merionethshire, in North Wales.

OSTIA, formerly a town of note, at the mouth of the Tiber (on the south side), whence its name; at this day it lies in ruins.

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PADUS, anciently called Eridanus by the Greeks, famous for the fable of Phaeton; it receives several rivers from the Alps and Apennine, and, running from west to east, discharges itself into the Adriatic.  It is now called the Po.

PAGIDA, a river in Numidia; its modern name is not ascertained.  D’Anville thinks it is now called Fissato, in the territory of Tripoli.

PALUS MAEOTIS; see MAEOTIS.

PAMPHYLIA, a country of the Hither Asia, bounded by Pisidia to the north, and by the Mediterranean to the south.

PANDA, a river of Asia, in the territory of the Siraci; not well known.

PANDATARIA, an island of the Tuscan Sea, in the Sinus Puteolanus (now il Golfo di Napoli), the place of banishment for illustrious exiles, viz.  Julia the daughter of Augustus, Agrippina the wife of Germanicus, Octavia the daughter of Claudius, and many others.  It is now called L’lsle Sainte-Marie, or Santa Maria.

PANNONIA, an extensive country of Europe, bounded by Maesia on the east, by Noricum on the west, Dalmatia on the south, and by the Danube to the north; containing part of Austria and Hungary.

PANNONIAN ALPS.  See ALPS.

PAPHOS:  there were two towns of the name, both on the west side of the island of Cyprus, and dedicated to Venus, who was hence the Paphian and the Cyprian goddess.

PARTHIA, a country of the Farther Asia, with Media on the west, Asia on the east, and Hyrcania on the north.

PATAVIUM, now Padua, in the territory of Venice.

PELIGNI, a people of Samaium, near Naples.

PELOPONNESUS, the large peninsula to the south of Greece, so called after Pelops, viz. Pelopis Nesus.  It is joined to the rest of Greece by the isthmus of Corinth, which lies between the Egean and Ionian seas.  It is now called the Morea.

PENNINAE ALPES.  See ALPS.

PERGAMOS, an ancient and famous city of Mysia, situate on the Caicus, which runs through it.  It was the residence of Attalus and his successors.  This place was famous for a royal library, formed, with emulation, to vie with that of Alexandria in Egypt.  The kings of the latter, stung with paltry jealousy, prohibited the exportation of paper.  Hence the invention of parchment, called Pergamana