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Pentapolis

Pentapolis · f

A district of five towns on the Dead Sea

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

Pentăpŏlis — Lewis & Short

Pentăpŏlis, is, f., = *penta/polis.

I A district of five towns on the Dead Sea, Sol. 35; Vulg. Sap. 10, 6.—

II A district of Cyrene, on the Libyan Sea, Sex. Ruf. Brev. 13; Sen. Verg. A. 4, 42.—Hence, Pentă-pŏlĭtānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pentapolis, i. e. to Cyrene, Cyrenaic: regio, Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 31.

In the wild

Pentapolim Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.16.1
Pentapoli Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.16.4

Where it came from

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