[♦] ‘Phla’ replaced with ‘Phila’
Philadelphia, now Alahasher, a town of Lydia. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 29.——Another, in Cilicia,——Arabia,——-Syria.
Philadelphus, a king of Paphlagonia, who followed the interest of Marcus Antony.——The surname of one of the Ptolemies, king of Egypt, by antiphrasis, because he destroyed all his brothers. See: [Ptolemæus II.]
[♦]Philæ, a town and island of Egypt, above the smaller cataract, but placed opposite Syene by Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 9. Isis was worshipped there. Lucan, bk. 10, li. 313.—Seneca, Quæstiones Naturales, bk. 4, ch. 2.——One of the Sporades. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.
[♦] ‘Phile’ replaced with ‘Philæ’
Philæni, two brothers of Carthage. When a contest arose between the Cyreneans and Carthaginians, about the extent of their territories, it was mutually agreed that, at a stated hour, two men should depart from each city, and that, wherever they met, there they should fix the boundaries of their country. The Philæni accordingly departed from Carthage, and met the Cyreneans, when they had advanced far into their territories. This produced a quarrel, and the Cyreneans supported that the Philæni had left Carthage before the appointment, and that therefore they must retire or be buried in the sand. The Philæni refused, upon which they were overpowered by the Cyreneans, and accordingly buried in the sand. The Carthaginians, to commemorate the patriotic deeds of the Philæni, who had sacrificed their lives that the extent of their country might not be diminished, raised two altars on the place where their bodies had been buried, which they called Philænorum aræ. These altars were the boundaries of the Carthaginian dominions, which on the other side extended as far as the columns of Hercules, which is about 2000 miles, or, according to the accurate observations of the moderns, only 1420 geographical miles. Sallust, Jugurthine War, chs. 19 & 79.—Silius Italicus, bk. 15, li. 704.
Philænis, or Phileris, a courtesan. See: [Phileris].
Philæus, a son of Ajax, by Lyside the daughter of Coronus, one of the Lapithæ. Miltiades, as some suppose, was descended from him.——A son of Augeas, who upbraided his father for not granting what Hercules justly claimed for cleaning his stables. See: [Augeas]. He was placed upon his father’s throne by Hercules. Apollodorus, bk. 2.
Philammon, a celebrated musician, son of Apollo and Chione.——A man who murdered Arsinoe, and who was slain by her female attendants.
Philanthus, a son of Prolaus of Elis, killed at the Olympic games. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 3.