Pindăsus, a mountain of Troas.
Pindenissus, a town of Cilicia, on the borders of Syria. Cicero, when proconsul in Asia, besieged it for 25 days and took it. Cicero, For Marcus Cælius; Letters to his Friends, bk. 2, ltr. 10.
Pindus, a mountain, or rather a chain of mountains, between Thessaly, Macedonia, and Epirus. It was greatly celebrated as being sacred to the Muses and to Apollo. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 570.—Strabo, bk. 18.—Virgil, Eclogues, poem 10.—Lucan, bk. 1, li. 674; bk. 6, li. 339.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 3.——A town of Doris in Greece, called also Cyphas. It was watered by a small river of the same name which falls into the Cephisus, near Lilæa. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 56.
Pingus, a river of Mœsia, falling into the Danube. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 26.
Pinna, a town of Italy at the mouth of the Matrinus, south of Picenum. Silius Italicus, bk. 8, li. 518.
Pinthias. See: [Phinthias].
Pintia, a town of Spain, now supposed to be Valladolid.
Pion, one of the descendants of Hercules, who built Pionia, near the Caycus in Mysia. It is said that smoke issued from his tomb as often as sacrifices were offered to him. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 18.
Pione, one of the Nereides. Apollodorus.
Piŏnia, a town of Mysia, near the Caycus.