Pentapolis
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Pentăpŏlis: is, f., = Πεντάπολις.
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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Pentăpŏlis, is, f. (Πεντάπολις), la Pentapole [ancienne contrée de la Palestine] : Sol. 35 || ancienne contrée de la Cyrénaïque : Rufius Fest. Brev. 13 || -tānus, a, um, de la Pentapole (Cyrénaïque) : Plin. 5, 31.
Latin > German (Georges)
Pentapolis, eos, Akk. im u. in, f. (Πεντάπολις), Fünfstadt, die nach ihren fünf Hauptstädten (Apollonia, Ptolemaïs, Arsinoë, Berenice, Cyrene) seit der Herrschaft der Ptolemäer so genannte Landschaft Cyrenaïka am libyschen Meere, j. das Hochland von Barka in Tripoli, Ruf. Fest. brev. 13. Serv. Verg. Aen. 4, 42 (wo Genet. u. Akk.). Vulg. sap. 10, 6 (Akk. -im). – Dies. Pentapolitāna regio, Plin. 5, 31.
Wikipedia EN
Pentapolitana (or rarely Pentapolis) was a league of towns in the Middle Ages of the five most important Hungarian royal free cities (Latin: libera regiae civitas, Hungarian: szabad királyi város, German: Königliche Freistadt; Slovak: slobodné kráľovské mesto) of the Kingdom of Hungary; Kassa (today Košice), Bártfa (Bardejov), Lőcse (Levoča), Eperjes (Prešov), and Kisszeben (Sabinov). The cities are currently in eastern Slovakia.
