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232 PHAENIPPUS. PHIAETHUSA.
under the name of Phaemon Philosopllus, by An- among those of Demosthenes (p. 1037, &c. ed.
drew Goldschmidt, at Wittenberg, in 1545. It Reiske). [C. [P. M.]
was afterwards re-edited by Rivinus, Leipzig, 1654. PHAENNA (Qascva), one of the Charites.
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 211.) [W. M. G.] (Paus. iii. 18. ~ 4, ix. 35. ~ 1.) [L. S.]
PHAENA'RETE. [SOCRATES]. PHAENNUS (,aIeYos), an epigrammatic poet,
PHAE'NEAS (,aiveas), an Aetolian of high who had a place in the Garland of Meleager
rank, who held the office of praetor of the Aetolian (v. 29), and two of whose epigrams are contained
league in B. C. 198, and was present at the con- in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. i.
ference between Flamininus and Philip at the p. 257; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 190.) NoMalian gulf, on which occasion he distinguished thing more is known of him. [P. S.]
himself by the vehemence of his opposition to PHAENOPS (4,aeYoi), the son of Asius of
the demands of the Macedonian king. (Polyb. Abvdos, and a friend of Hector; he was the
xvii. 1, 3, 4; Liv. xxxii. 32, 33, 34.) Early in father of Xanthus, Phorcys, and Thoon. (Hom.
the ensuing sprin, (B. C. 197) he joined Flami- II. v. 152, xvii. 312, 582.) [L. S.]
ninus with the Aetolian contingent, and appears to PHAESTUS (batoTros), a son of Rhopalus, and
have rendered important services in the campaign grandson of Heracles, was king of Sicyon, from
that followed (Liv. xxxiii. 3, 6, 7). But in the whence he emigrated to Crete. (Paus. ii. 6. ~ 3.)
conference that was again held between the Roman He is said to have established at Sicyon the cusgeneral and Philip, for the settlement of the terms tom of worshipping Heracles as a god, since before
of peace, after the decisive battle of Cynoscephalae, he had only been honoured as a hero, (Paus. ii.
Phaeneas gave great offence to Flamininus by the 10. ~ 1; Eustath. ad Ihom. p. 313.) A second
pertinacity with which he insisted on the restitution Phaestus was a son of Borus, of Tame, in Maeto the Aetolians of certain cities in Thessaly, and the onia, and was slain by Idomeneus at Troy
dispute between them on this occasion is regarded (Hom. [1. v. 43.) [L. S.]
by Polybius as the first origin of the war that PHAETHON (4a0ocev),tlhat is, "the shining,"
subsequently broke out between the Romans and occurs in Homer (11. xi. 735, Od. v. 479) as all
Aetolians (Polyb. xviii. 20-22; Liv. xxxiii. 13). epithet or surname of Helios, and is used by later
In B. C. 192, when Antiochus landed in Greece, writers as a real proper name for Helios (Apollon.
Phaeneas was again praetor, and in that capacity Rhod. iv. 1236; Virg. Aen. v. 105); but it is
was one of those who introduced the king into the more commonly known as the name of a son of
assembly of the Aetolians at Lamia. But in the Helios by the Oceanid Clymene, the wife of Mediscussions that ensued he took the lead of the more rops. The genealogy of Phaethon, however, is
moderate party, and opposed, though unsuccessfully, not the same in all writers, for some call him a son
the warlike counsels of Thoas and his adherents of Clymenus, the son of Helios, by Merope (Hygin.
(Liv. xxxv. 44, 45). Though he was overruled at Fab. 154), or a son of Ilelios by Prote (Tzetz.
this period, the unfavourable turn of affairs soon in- C/ail. iv. 137), or, lastly, a son of Helios by the
duced the Aetolians to listen to more pacific counsels, nymph Rhode or Rhodos. (Schol. ad Pine. 01. vi.
and, after the fall of Heracleia, B. C. 191, an embassy 131.) He received the significant name Phaethon
was despatched, at the head of which was Phaeneas from his father, and was afterwards also presumphimself, to bear the submission of the nation to the tuous and ambitious enough to request his father
Roman general M'. Acilius Glabrio. But the ex- one day to allow him to drive the chariot of the
orbitant demands of the latter and his arrogant de- sun across the heavens. Helios was induced by
meanour towards the ambassadors themselves, broke the entreaties of his son and of Clymene to yield,
off all prospect of reconciliation, and the war was but the youth being too weak to check the horses,
continued, though the Roman arms were for a time came down with his chariot, and so near to the earth,
diverted against Antiochus. In B. c. 190, Phaeneas that he almost set it on fire. Zeus, therefore,
was again sent as ambassador to Rome to sue for killed him with a flash of lightning, so that he fell
peace, but both he and his colleagues fell into the down into the river Eridanus or the Po. His
hands of the Epeirots, and were compelled to pay sisters, who had yoked the horses to the chariot,
a heavy ransom to redeem themselves from captivity. were metamorphosed into poplars, and their tears
Meanwhile, the arrival of the consul M. Fulvius into amber. (Eurip. HIippol. 737, &c.; Apollon.
put an end to all hopes of peace. But during the Rhod. iv. 598, &c.; Lucian, Dial. Deor. 25;
siege of Ambracia, B. c. 189, the Aetolians deter- Hygin. Fab. 152, 154; Virg. Eclog. vi. 62, Aen.
mined to make one more effort, and Phaeneas and x. 190; Ov. Met. i. 755, &c.)
Damoteles were sent to the Roman consul, with 2. A son of Cephalus and Eos, was carried off
powers to conclude peace on almost any terms. by Aphrodite, who appointed him guardian of her
This they ultimately obtained, through the inter- temple. (Hes. Theog. 986.) Apollodorus (iii. 14.
cession of the Athenians and Rhodians, and the ~ 3) calls him a son of Tithonus, and grandson of
favour of C. Valerius Laevinus, upon more moderate Cephalus, and Pausanias (i. 3. ~ 1) a son of Ceconditions than they could have dared to hope for. phalus and Hemera.
Phaeneas now hastened to Rome to obtain the ra- 3. The name of one of the horses of Eos. (Hom.
tification of this treaty, which was, after some Od. xxiii. 246.) It is also a surname of Absyrtus.
hesitation, granted by the senate on nearly the (Apollon. Rhod. iii. 245.) [L. S.]
same terms as those dictated by Fulvius. (Polyb. PHAETHON, a slave or freedman of Q. Cicero.
xx. 9, 10, xxii. 8, 9, 12-14, 15; Liv. xxxvi. 28, (Cic. ad Q. Ft. i. 4, ad Att. iii. 8.)
29, 35, xxxviii. 8-11.) [E. H. B.] PHAETHONTIADES or PIJAETHONTIPHAE'NIAS. [PH.AN1AS.] DES (IaE0ovrTi8ETs), i. e. the daughters of Phaethon
PHAENIPPUS (,ai'vnr7ros), an Athenian, the or Helios, and sisters of the unfortunate Phaethon.
son of Callippus, and adopted son of Philostratus. They are also called Heliades. (Virg. Eclog. vi.
A speech against him, composed for a suit in a case 62; Anthol. Palat. ix. 782.) [L. S.]
of Antidosis (Dict. of Anlt, art. Antidesis), is found PHAETHIt'SA (,'aieouvra). 1. One of the