Phocus, son of Phocion, was dissolute in his manners and unworthy of the virtues of his great father. He was sent to Lacedæmon to imbibe there the principles of sobriety, of temperance, and frugality. He cruelly revenged the death of his father, whom the Athenians had put to death. Plutarch, Phocion & Apophthegmata Laconica.——A son of Æacus by Psamathe, killed by Telamon. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 12.——A son of Ornytion, who led a colony of Corinthians into Phocis. He cured Antiope, a daughter of Nycteus, of insanity, and married her, and by her became father of Panopeus and Crisus. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 4.
Phocylides, an ancient poet. See: [Phocilides].
Phœbas, a name applied to the priestess of Apollo’s temple at Delphi. Lucan, bk. 5, li. 128, &c.
Phœbe, a name given to Diana, or the moon, on account of the brightness of that luminary. She became, according to Apollodorus, mother of Asteria and Latona. See: [Diana].——A daughter of Leucippus and Philodice, carried away, with her sister Hilaira, by Castor and Pollux, as she was going to marry one of the sons of Aphareus. See: [Leucippides]. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 10.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 22.
Phœbeum, a place near Sparta.
Phœbĭdas, a Lacedæmonian general sent by the Ephori to the assistance of the Macedonians against the Thracians. He seized the citadel of Thebes; but though he was disgraced and banished from the Lacedæmonian army for this perfidious measure, yet his countrymen kept possession of the town. He died B.C. 377. Cornelius Nepos, Pelopidas.—Diodorus, bk. 14, &c.
Phœbigĕna, a surname of Æsculapius, &c., as being descended from Phœbus. Virgil, Æneid, [♦]bk. 7, li. 773.
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Phœbus, a name given to Apollo, or the sun. This word expresses the brightness and splendour of that luminary (φοιβος). See: [Apollo].
Phœmos, a lake of Arcadia.