Road station
Panormo
Palermo
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Panormo is Panormus, now Palermo, an ancient Phoenician city whose Greek name means all harbour, for its excellent anchorage. Under Rome it was a free city and then a colony of Augustus, and the emperor Vespasian settled veterans on its land. Oddly for so great a place, the map gives it no picture at all, only the plain mark of a road station, and its next distance has to be squeezed in above the name.