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(Πάταρα; Pátara). Port city in West Lycia (Lycii, Lycia) at the location of an old Pre-Iron Age settlement. In Greek legends, the city's name - pttara in Lycian (TAM I 44a 43) - is sometimes tied to a son of Apollo (Hecat. FGrH 1 F 256), at other times to the pirate Patarus, a brother of Xanthus (Eust. GGM 2,239, 30-37), or it is tied to the name for a certain cultic container (Alexander Polyhistor F…