A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

PHORBAS. PHORMION. 345:lly p ardoned by Antigonus, but received again 6. The father of Ilioneus. (Homrn. I. xiv. 490
into favour: and in the campaign which preceded Virg. Aen. v. 842.)
the battle of Issus (B. C. 302), we find him holding 7. A son of Methion of Syene, one of the comthe command of Sardis, which he was, however, panions of Phineus. (Ov. AMet. v. 74.) [L. S.]
induced to surrender to Prepelaus, the general of PHORBE'NUS or PHOBE'NUS, GEO'RLysimachus (Id. xx. 107). This is the last time GIUS (rFewp7os o 0,opervois), a Greek jurist of
his name is mentioned. uncertain date. A MS. which Ducange has cited
3. The youngest son of Antigonus, king of Asia, (Glossar. Med. et Infiln. Graecitlat. Index Auctor..
is called by Diodorus in one passage (xx. 73), col. 26), describes him as AlKaioquh.Aa OEaO\aAoPhoeiiix, but it seems that this is a mistake, and VYKcS, "Judge at Thessalonica." He wrote two
that his true name was Philip. (Comp. Diod. xx. very short dissertations:-I. epl,v}roeC~oov, De
1 9; and see Droysen, Hellenism. vol. i. p. 465.) Donatione super Nptlias; and 2. Ilepi adroruXfias,
[PHILIPPus, No. 17.] [E. H. B.] De Casso. He wrote also Scholia on the Basilica,
PHOENIX (Io0v7t), of Colophon, a choliambic of which possibly the above dissertations may have
poet, of unknown time, of whose poems Athenaeus formed part. (Allatius, De Georyiis, c. 48; Fabric.
preserves some fragments, the chief of which is in Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 721, and vol. xii. pp. 483,
ridicule of the arts of certain beggars, who demanded 564, ed. vet.) [J. C. M.]
alms in the name of a raven which they carried PHO'RCIDES (4,opicl~s), PHORCYDES, or
ab)out on their hands. (Bode, Gesch. d. ILyr. Dichtk. PHORCYNIDES, that is, the daughters of Phorvol. i. p. 337; Meineke, Choliarnzb. Poes. Graec. pp. cus and Ceto, or the Gorgons and Graeae. (Aeschyl.
140-145.) [P. S.] Prom. 794; Ov. Met. iv. 742, 774, v. 230;
PHOENIX (,Io7vYi), a statuary, of unknown Hygin. Fab. Praef. p. 9; comp. GORGONES and
country, was the pupil of Lysippus, and therefore GRAEAE.) [L. S.]
flourished about 01. 120, B. c. 300. He made a PHORCUS, PHORCYS, or PHORCYN
celebrated statue of the Olympic victor boxing, (ImpcIOS, J 4ppKVS,,p,,pcuv*). 1. According to the
Epitherses. (Plin. II. Nr. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. ~ 20; Homeric poems, an old man ruling over the sea, or
Pans. vi. 15. ~ 3.) [P. S.] "the old man of the sea," to whom a harbour in
PHOLUS (4,0Aos), a Centaur, a son of Seilenus Ithaca was dedicated. He is described as the
and the nymph Melia, from whom Mount Pholoe, father of the nymph Thoosa (Od. i. 71, xiii. 96,
between Arcadia and Elis, was believed to have 345). Later writers call him a son of Pontus and
derived its name. (Apollod. ii. 5. ~ 4; Theocrit. Ge, and a brother of Thaumas, Nereus, Eurybia,
vi. 149.) [L. S.] and Ceto (Hes. Theog. 237; Apollod. i. 2. ~ 6).
PHORBAS (4o'peas). 1. A son of Lapithes By his sister Ceto he became the father of the
and Orsinome, and a brother of Periphas. The Graeae and Gorgones (Iles. Theog. 270, &c.), the
Rhodians, in pursuance of an oracle, are said to Hesperian dragon (ibid. 333, &c.), and the Heshave invited him into their island to deliver it perides (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1399); and
from snakes, and afterwards to have honoured him by Hecate or Cratais, he was the father of Scylla.
with heroic worship. (Diod. v. 58.) From this (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 828; Eustath. ad
circumstance he was called Ophiuchus, and is said Homrn. p. 1714; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 45.) Servius
by some to have been placed among the stars. (ad Aen. v. 824) calls him a son of Neptune and
(Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 14, who calls him a son of Thoosa. (Comp. Muncker, ad Iiypin. Fab. praef.
Triopas and Hiscilla; comp. Paus. vii. 26. ~ 5.) p. 4.)
According to another tradition, Phorbas went from 2. A son of Phaenops, commander of the PhryThessaly to Olenos, where Alector, king of Elis, gians of Ascania, assisted Priam in the Trojan war,
made use of his assistance against Pelops, and but was slain by Ajax. (Hom. Il. ii. 862, xvii.
shared his kingdom with him. Phorbas then gave 218, 312, &c.; Paus. x. 26. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
his daughter Diogeneia in marriage to Alector, and PHO'RMION (l4op/dcdc), historical. 1. An
he himself married Hyrmine, a sister of Alector, Athenian general, the son of Asopius (or Asopiby whom he became the father of Augeas and chus, as Pausanias calls him). His family was a
Actor. (Diod. iv. 69; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 303; distinguished one. He belonged to the deme
Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 172; Paus. v. 1. ~ 8; Paeania. In B. C. 440 he was one of the three
Apollod. ii. 5. ~ 5.) He is also described as a generals who were sent out with reinforcements to
bold boxer, and to have plundered the temple of the Athenian troops blockading Samos. In 432,
Delphi along with the Phlegyes, but to have been after the revolt of Potidaea, he was sent out with
defeated by Apollo. (Schol. ad Horn. II. xxiii. reinforcements for the troops under Callias, and,
660; Ov. Met. xi. 414, xii. 322.) taking the command, proceeded to blockade the
2. A son of Argos or Criasus, was a brother of city. When the circumvallation was completed
Peirasus, and married to Euboea, by whom he be- he led his troops to ravage Chalcidice and Bottice.
came the father of Triopas, whence he seems to He was still here in 431, when he was joined by
have been a grandson of No. 1. (Paus. ii. 16. ~ 1, Perdiccas, king of Macedonia, in some operations
iv. 1. ~ 2; Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 920.) against the Chalcidians. He left before the sum3. A son of Criasus and Melantho, a brother of mer of 430. Towards the close of that same year
Ereuthalion and Cleoboea, is described as the father he was sent with 30 ships to assist the Acarnaof Arestor. (Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 1116, Or. nians against the Ambraciots, who had seized the
920.) Amphilochian Argos. In the succeeding winter
4. A Lesbian, and father of Diomede, whom he was sent with 20 ships to Naupactus to prevent
Achilles carried off. (Hom. II. ix. 665; Dict.
Cret. ii. 16.) * The form 4,o'pKos occurs chiefly in poetry;
5. An Acarnanian, who, together with Eumol- 4dprcus is the common name, and,bpKVV, vvos, is
pus, went to Eleusis. (Eustath. ad lHons. p. 1156; found only in late writers. (Eustath. ad IIont. p.
Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 854.) 364, 1108.)