Phauda, a town of Pontus.
Phavorīnus, a writer, the best edition of whose Greek Lexicon is that in folio, Venice, 1712.
Phayllus, a tyrant of Ambracia.——The brother of Onomarchus of Phocis, &c. See: [Phocis]. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 2.
Phea, or Pheia, a town of Elis. Homer, Iliad, bk. 7.
Phecadum, an inland town of Macedonia. Livy, bk. 31, ch. 41.
Phegeus, or Phlegeus, a companion of Æneas, killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 765.——Another, likewise killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 371, &c.——A priest of Bacchus, the father of Alphesibœa, who purified Alcmæon of his mother’s murder, and gave him his daughter in marriage. He was afterwards put to death by the children of Alcmæon by Callirhoe, because he had ordered Alcmæon to be killed when he had attempted to recover a collar which he had given to his daughter. See: [Alcmæon]. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 412.
Phellia, a river of Laconia. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 20.
Phelloe, a town of Achaia near Ægira, where Bacchus and Diana each had a temple. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 26.
Phellus, a place of Attica.——A town of Elis, near Olympia. Strabo.
Phemius, a man introduced by Homer as a musician among Penelope’s suitors. Some say that he taught Homer, for which the grateful poet immortalized his name. Homer, Odyssey.——A man who, according to some, wrote an account of the return of the Greeks from the Trojan war. The word is applied by Ovid, Amores, bk. 3, li. 7, indiscriminately to any person who excels in music.