Pherephate, a surname of Proserpine, from the production of corn.
Pheres, a son of Cretheus and Tyro, who built Pheræ in Thessaly, where he reigned. He married Clymene, by whom he had Admetus and Lycurgus. Apollodorus.——A son of Medea, stoned to death by the Corinthians, on account of the poisonous clothes which he had given to Glauce, Creon’s daughter. See: [Medea]. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 3.——A friend of Æneas, killed by Halesus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 413.
Pheretias, a patronymic of Admetus son of Pheres. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 291.
Pheretīma, the wife of Battus king of Cyrene, and mother of Arcesilaus. After her son’s death, she recovered the kingdom by means of Amasis king of Egypt, and to avenge the murder of Arcesilaus, she caused all his assassins to be crucified round the walls of Cyrene, and she cut off the breasts of their wives, and hung them up near the bodies of their husbands. It is said that she was devoured alive by worms, a punishment which, according to some of the ancients, was inflicted by Providence for her unparalleled cruelties. Polyænus, bk. 8.—Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 204, &c.
Pherinum, a town of Thessaly.
Pheron, a king of Egypt, who succeeded Sesostris. He was blind, and he recovered his sight by washing his eyes, according to the directions of the oracle, in the urine of a woman who had never had any unlawful connexions. He tried his wife first, but she appeared to have been faithless to his bed, and she was burnt with all those whose urine could not restore sight to the king. He married the woman whose urine proved beneficial. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 111.
Pherūsa, one of the Nereides. Apollodorus, bk. 1.
Phiăle, one of Diana’s nymphs. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3.——A celebrated courtesan. Juvenal, satire 10, li. 238.
Phialia, or Phigalia, a town of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 3.
Phiălus, a king of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 3.