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have been published with the head of Phintias from the larger work in sixteen. Photius tells us
himself are probably spurious. (See Eckhel, vol. i. that the fifth book completed Olympiad 177; now
p. 266.) [E. H. B.] we learn from other quarters that Phlegon in his
13th book described 01. 203; and it is therefore
not likely that he employed 8 books (lib. 6-13)
o 1~~ ~x~ ~~~on 26 Olympiads, and 5 on 177. But if Photius
____ /ic i 4lD \ quoted the epitome in eight books, the first five
\~~~ f8~~~~~ Y V might contain 177 Olympiads, and the last three
- f~ ______ D i/ - )the remaining 52. Photius himself did not read
/ooy \\*<.~i~ARI further than 01. 177.
5.'Erire-oLi'OXuT'OvIKccv ev z Ai'olS A', is
COIN OF PHINTIAS. expressly mentioned by Suidas as an epitome, and
probably differed from the preceding abridgment
PHITEUS, architect. [PHILEUS.] in containing no historical information, but sinmply
PHLE'GETHON (Ae~ye0owv), i. e. the flaming, a list of the Olympic conquerors.
a river in the lower world, is described as a son of 6. "EEK)pCnas cLeAias.
Cocytus; but he is more commonly called Pyriphlege- 7. Ilepi -rcv rampa'PwouaaoLs eopTwv LtGXiea y'.
thoun. (Virg. Aen. vi. 265, 550; Stat. Tleb. iv. 8. nIes Tpl1v v'Poler T4'rwV Kal ov ErlKCCxKAV522.) [L. S.]'at Jvopdcrwv. These works are mentioned only
PI-ILEGON (hdXywv), one of the horses of Sol. by Suidas.
(Ov. AMet. ii. 154; Hygin. Fab. 183.) [L. S.] 9. A Life of Hadrian, was really written by
PHLEGON (hAeiywv), a native of Tralles in the emperor himself, though published as the work
Lydia, was a freedman of the emperor Hadrian, of Phlegon. (Spartian. Hadr. 16.)
and not of Augustus, as has been erroneously as- 10. rvva-ice E'v rokAelAcos a'vveTral al Kad vpe-ai,
serted by some writers, on the authority of Suidas a small treatise, first published by Heeren (in Bill.
(comp. Phot. Cod. 97; Spartian. ftadr. 16, Sever. d. Alten. Literat. und Kunst, part vi. Gottingen,
20; Vopisc. Saturn. 7). Phlegon probably survived 1789), by whom it is ascribed to Phlegon; but
Hadrian, since his work on the Olympiads came Westermann, who has also printed it, with the other
down to 01. 229, that is, A. D. 137, which was the works of Phlegon, thinks that it was not written
year beforet'iee'death'of tbiss iemperor. The fol- by him.
lowing is a list of the writings of Phlegon. The Editio Princeps of Phlegon was edited by
1. fIepi bauayaaeoe, a small treatise on wonderful Xylander, along with Antoninus Liberalis, Antievents, which has come down to us, but the begin- gonus, and similar writers, Basel, 1568. The next
ning of which is wanting. It is a poor perform- edition was by Meursius, Lugd. Batav. 1620,
ance, full of the most ridiculous tales, and with the which was reprinted by Gronovius, in his Theexception of the work of Psellus, the worst of the saurus of Greek Antiquities, vols. viii. and ix.
Greek treatises on this subject. The third edition was by Fr. Franz, 1775, of
2. lIepl ttaKpogiceV, which is likewise extant, which a new edition appeared in 1822, Halle, with
consists of only a few pages, and gives a list the notes of Bast. The most recent edition is by
of persons in Italy who had attained the age of Westermann in his Ilapaoo ypdpaoi, Scriptores
a hundred years and upwards. It was copied from Rerum Mirabilium Graeci, Brunsvig. 1839. The
the registers of the censors (et avTrVy'TCY7 d7rorUxO- fragments on the Olympiads have also been pubaewoV), is a bare enumeration of names, and is not lished in the edition of Pindar published at Oxford
worthy to be compared with the work on the same in 1697, fol., and in Krause's Olympia, Wien,
subject ascribed to Lucian. At the end there is 1838. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 255; Voss.
an extract from the Sibylline oracles of some sixty de Hist. Graec. p. 261, ed. Westermann; Clinton,
or seventy lines. These are the only works of Fasti Romtani, vol. i. p. 127; Westermann, PraePhlegon which have come down to us. ratio ad IlapaoSoopdacovs, p. xxxvii. &c.)
3.'O0vxulovroKcV; Kal XpoYvKtCt ovvaaywyi, which PHLE'GYAS (4'Aeyv'as), a king of the Lais sometimes quoted under the title of Xpovo-ypaqitai pithae, a son of Ares and Chryse, the daughter of
or'OAvturda6Es, was in seventeen books, and gave Halmus, succeeded Eteocles, who died without issue,
an account of the Olympiads from 01. 1 (B.c. 776) in the government of the district of Orchomenos,
to 01. 229 (A. D. 137). It was dedicated to which he called after himself Phlegyantis. (Paus.
Alcibiades, who was one of the body-guards of ix. 36. ~ 1; Apollod. iii. 5. ~ 5.) By Chryse he
Hadrian. This was by far the most important of became the father of Coronis, who became by
the works of Phlegon. The commencement of the Apollo the mother of Asclepius. Enraged at this,
book is preserved in the manuscripts of the other Phlegyas set fire to the temple of the God, who
works of Phlegon, and an extract from it re- killed him with his arrows, and condemned him to
lating to the 177th Olympiad is given by Photius severe punishment in the lower world. (Hom.
(Cod. 97); but with these exceptions, and a few Hymn. xv. 3; Pind. Pyth. iii. 14; Apollod.
references to it in Stephanus Byzantinus, Eusebius, iii. 10. ~ 3, ii. 26. ~ 4; Serv. ad Aeen. vi. 618;
Origen, and others, the work is entirely lost. The Stat. Theb. i. 71 3.) According to another tradistyle of it is characterized by Photius as not very tion Phlegyas had no children, and was killed by
mean, but at the same time as not pure Attic; Lycus and Nycteus. (Apollod. iii. 5. ~ 5.) Strabo
and he blames likewise the excessive care and at- (ix. p. 442) calls him a brother of ixion. [L. S.]
tention bestowed by the author upon oracles. PHLEON (hANiv), i. e. the giver of plenty, is a
4.'OAvui7rides E' BihoCAiLST R', was on the same surname of Dionysus, describing the god as prosubject as the preceding work, and must be re- moting the fertility of plants and trees. (Aelian,
garded as a sort of abridgement of it: Clinton has V. H. iii. 41.) A similar surname of the god is
remarked, with justice, that Photiuis probably quoted Phlyus (from pAhvEtyv; Schol. ad Apollon. R/od.
from this shorter work in eight books, and not i. 115.) [L. S.]
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