Pharus, a Rutulian killed by Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 322.
Pharusii, or Phaurusii, a people of Africa, beyond Mauritania. Mela, bk. 1, ch. 4.
Pharybus, a river of Macedonia, falling into the Ægean sea. It is called by some Baphyrus.
Pharycadon, a town of Macedonia, on the Peneus. Strabo, bk. 9.
Pharyge, a town of Locris.
Phasēlis, a town of Pamphylia, at the foot of mount Taurus, which was long the residence of pirates. Strabo, bk. 14.—Lucan, bk. 8, ch. 251.—Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, bk. 2, ch. 19.
Phasiana, a country of Asia, near the river Phasis. The inhabitants called Phasiani, are of Egyptian origin.
Phasias, a patronymic given to Medea, as being born near the Phasis. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7.
Phasis, a son of Phœbus and Ocyroe.——A river of Colchis, rising in the mountains of Armenia, now called Faoz, and falling into the east of the Euxine. It is famous for the expedition of the Argonauts, who entered it after a long and perilous voyage, from which reason all dangerous voyages have been proverbially intimated by the words of sailing to the Phasis. There were on the banks of the Phasis a great number of large birds, of which, according to some of the ancients, the Argonauts brought some to Greece, and which were called on that account pheasants. The Phasis was reckoned by the ancients one of the largest rivers of Asia. Pliny, bk. 10, ch. 48.—Martial, bk. 13, ltr. 62.—Strabo, bk. 11.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 19.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, &c.—Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 44.—Orpheus.
Phassus, a son of Lycaon. Apollodorus.