Pallantia

a daughter of Evander, was beloved by Heracles, and said to be buried on the Palatine hill at Rome, which derived its name from her. (Serv. ad Aen. 8.51.) Evander himself, being a grandson of Pallas, is also called Pallantius. (Ov. Fast. 5.647.) [L.S]

PALLA´NTIA (Παλλαντία, Strab. 3. p. 162; Ptol. 2.6.50), the most important town of the Vaccaei, in the N. of Hispania Tarraconensis, and in the jurisdiction of Clunia. (Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4.) Strabo (l. c.) wrongly assigns it to the Arevaci. Now Palencia on the Carrion. (See D'Anville, Geog. Ano. 1. p. 23; Florez, Esp. S. 8.4; Appian, B. H. 100.55, 80; Mela, 2.6.) For its coins, see Mionnet (1. p. 48). [T. H. D.1

Now Palencia. The chief town of the Vaccaei, in the north of Hispania Tarraconensis, and on a tributary of the Durius (Douro).