Phrasĭcles, a nephew of Themistocles, whose daughter Nicomacha he married. Plutarch, Themistocles.
Phrasimus, the father of Praxithea. Apollodorus.
Phrasius, a Cyprian soothsayer, sacrificed on an altar by Busiris king of Egypt.
Phrataphernes, a general of the Massagetæ, who surrendered to Alexander. Curtius, bk. 8.——A satrap who, after the death of Darius, fled to Hyrcania, &c. Curtius.
Phriapatius, a king of Parthia, who flourished B.C. 195.
Phricium, a town near Thermopylæ. Livy, bk. 36, ch. 13.
Phrixus, a river of Argolis. There is also a small town of that name in Elis, built by the Minyæ. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 148.
Phronĭma, a daughter of Etearchus king of Crete. She was delivered to a servant to be thrown into the sea, by order of her father, at the instigation of his second wife. The servant was unwilling to murder the child, but as he was bound by an oath to throw her into the sea, he accordingly let her down into the water by a rope, and took her out again unhurt. Phronima was afterwards in the number of the concubines of Polymnestus, by whom she became mother of Battus the founder of Cyrene. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 154.
Phrontis, son of Onetor, pilot of the ship of Menelaus, after the Trojan war, was killed by Apollo just as the ship reached Sunium. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 3, li. 282.—Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 25.——One of the Argonauts. Apollodorus, bk. 1.
Phruri, a Scythian nation.