. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ientplaces in the island. It was destroyed by the Gor-tynians, w-ho took possession of its territory. ( c.) Its port was Matalum, from which it wasdistant 40 stadia, though it was only 20 from thecoast. (Strab. I. c.) We also learn from Strabothat Epimenides was a native of Phaestus. The in-habitants were celebrated for their sharp and wittysavings. (Athen. vi. p. 261, e.) Phaestus is men-tioned also by Scylax, p. 18; Polyb. iv. 55. Stephanus B. (s. v. 4>cuaicrTias) ;but this name is evidently corrupt; and instead of itwe ought probably to
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ientplaces in the island. It was destroyed by the Gor-tynians, w-ho took possession of its territory. ( c.) Its port was Matalum, from which it wasdistant 40 stadia, though it was only 20 from thecoast. (Strab. I. c.) We also learn from Strabothat Epimenides was a native of Phaestus. The in-habitants were celebrated for their sharp and wittysavings. (Athen. vi. p. 261, e.) Phaestus is men-tioned also by Scylax, p. 18; Polyb. iv. 55. Stephanus B. (s. v. 4>cuaicrTias) ;but this name is evidently corrupt; and instead of itwe ought probably to read Lisses. This place mustnot be confounded with Lissus, which was situatedmuch more to the W. (Kramer, ad Strab. I. c.). COIN OF PHAESTUS. 2. A town of Thessaly in the district Pelasgiotis,a little to the right of the Peneius. It was takenby the Roman praetor Baebius in b. c. 191.(Liv. xxxvi. 13.) 3. A town of the Locri Ozolae in the interior,with a port called the port of Apollo Phaestius.(Plin. iv. 3. s. 4.) Leake places Phaestus at Vit-hari, where are the ruins of a fortress of no greatextent, and the port of Apollo near C. Andhroindkhi.(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 621.) 4. The later name of Phrixa in Triphylia in Elis.[Phrixa.] PHAGRES (idyp-qs, Hecat. up. Steph. B. s. v.;Herod, vii. 112; Thuc. ii. 99 ; Scyl. p. 27 ; p. 331, Fr. 33), a fortress in the Pieric hollow,and the first place after the passage of the is identified with the post station of Or/and, onthe great road from Greece to Constantinople, whereGreek coins have been often found, and, among PHALASARNA. other small productions of Hellenic art, oval slingbullets of lead, or the glandes of which Lucan(vii. 512)
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