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PALI (Ancient city) KEFALLONIA
Eth. Paleis, Pales, Thuc.; Palenses: the city itself is usually called
Paleis: also he Palaieon polis, Polyb. v. 3. A town in Cephallenia on the eastern
side of a bay in the north-western part of the island. It is first mentioned in
the Persian wars, when two hundred of its citizens fought at the battle of Plataea,
alongside of the Leucadians and Anactorians. (Herod. ix. 28.) It also sent four
ships to the assistance of the Corinthians against the Corcyraeans just before
the commencement of the Peloponnesian War (Thuc. i. 27); from which circumstance,
together with its fighting along with the Corinthian Leucadians and Anactorians
at the battle of Plataea, it has been conjectured that Pale was a Corinthian colony.
But whether this was the case or not, it joined the Athenian alliance, together
with the other towns of the island, in B.C. 431. (Thuc. ii. 30.) At a later period
Pale espoused the side of the Aetolians against the Achaeans, and was accordingly
besieged by Philip, who would have taken the city but for the treachery of one
of his own officers. (Pol. v. 3, 4.) Polybius describes Pale as surrounded by
the sea, and by precipitous heights on every side, except the one looking towards
Zacynthus. He further states that it possessed a fertile territory, in which a
considerable quantity of corn was grown. Pale surrendered to the Romans without
resistance in ra. c. 189 (Liv. xxxviii. 28); and after the capture of Same by
the Romans in that year, it became the chief town in the island. It was in existence
in the time of Hadrian, in whose reign it is called in an inscription eleuthera
kai autonomos. (Bockh, Inscr. No. 340.) According to Pherecydes, Pale was the
Homeric Dulichium : this opinion was rejected by Strabo (x. p. 456), but accepted
by Pausanias (vi. 15. § 7).
The remains of Pale are seen on a small height, about a mile and a
half to the north of the modern Lixuri. Scarcely anything is left of the ancient
city; but the name is still retained in that of Palio and of Paliki, the former
being the name of the plain around the ruins of the city, and the latter that
of the whole peninsula. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 64.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A city of Cephallenia opposite Zacynthus.
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