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Pergăma, ōrum, or Pergămum (Pergămon), i, n., = Πέργαμα or Πέργαμον,

  1. I. the citadel of Troy, poet. for Troy: Pergama, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. 512, 32 (Trag. Rel. v. 2 Rib.); Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Trag. v. 98 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 476; Verg. A. 1, 651; 2, 177; 571; Ov. M. 12, 445; 591; 13, 169 et saep.: Pergamo, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42; Pac. ap. Non. 280, 27: Pergamum (acc.), Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 26, 42; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 2; (nom.) Sen. Agam. 419; id. Troad. 14: Pergamon, Auct. Aetn. 18.
    1. B. Lavinia Pergama, i. e. Lavinium, Sil. 13, 64.
      Hence,
  2. II. Pergămĕus, a, um, adj., Trojan (poet.): arces, Verg. A. 3, 110: gens, id. ib. 6, 63: Lar, id. ib. 5, 744: vates, i. e. Cassandra, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 51.
      1. 2. Transf., Roman (on account of the descent of the Romans from the Trojans): sanguis, Sil. 1, 47.

Pergămĕus, a, um, v. Pergama, II., and 2. Pergamum, B.

2. Pergămum, i, n., a city in Mysia, on the Caystrus, the residence of the Attalian kings, with a celebrated library, now Bergamo, Plin. 5, 30, 33, § 126; Liv. 29, 11; 37, 19; 20 al.
Hence,

  1. A. Pergămēnus, a, um, adj., = Περγαμηνός, of or belonging to Pergamum in Mysia, Pergamean: Pergamena civitas, Cic. Fl. 30, 64: ager, Liv. 37, 21: naves, Nep. Hann. 11, 5.
    Pergamena charta, or as subst.: Pergămēna (collat. form Pergămīna, Not. Tir. p. 124), ae, f., parchment, a material for writing on, prepared from the skins of animals, invented by Eumenes, king of Pergamum, Isid. Orig. 6, 11; Hier. Ep. 7, n. 2; cf. Varr. ap. Plin. 13, 11, 21, § 70.
    Pergămēna, ae, f., the country about Pergamum, Plin. 5, 30, 33, § 126.
    In plur.: Pergămēni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Pergamum, the Pergameans, Cic. Fl. 30, 74.
  2. B. Pergămĕ-us, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the city of Pergamum, Pergamean (poet.): deus, i. e. Æsculapius (who was worshipped at Pergamum), Mart. 9, 17, 2.