A dictionary of Greek and Roman . nck, Anal. ii. 186.) ThePharos of Brundusium, for example, was, like thatof Alexandria, an island with a light-house uponit. (Mela, ii. 7. § 13 ; Steph. Byz. I. c.) Suetonius(Tiber. 74) mentions another pharos at Capreae. The annexed woodcut shows two phari remain-ing in Britain. The first is within the precinctsof Dover Castle. It is about 40 feet high, octago-nal externally, tapering from below upwards, andbuilt with narrow courses of brick and much widercourses of stone in alternate portions. The spacewithin the tower is square, the sides of t
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . nck, Anal. ii. 186.) ThePharos of Brundusium, for example, was, like thatof Alexandria, an island with a light-house uponit. (Mela, ii. 7. § 13 ; Steph. Byz. I. c.) Suetonius(Tiber. 74) mentions another pharos at Capreae. The annexed woodcut shows two phari remain-ing in Britain. The first is within the precinctsof Dover Castle. It is about 40 feet high, octago-nal externally, tapering from below upwards, andbuilt with narrow courses of brick and much widercourses of stone in alternate portions. The spacewithin the tower is square, the sides of the octagonwithout and of the square within being equal, viz.,each 15 Roman feet. The door is seen at thebottom. (Stukely, Zfm. Curios, p. 129.) A similarpharos formerly existed at Boulogne, and is sup-posed to have been built by Caligula. (Sueton. ; Montfaucon, Supplem. vol. iv. L. vi. 3, 4.) Theround tower here introduced is on the summit of ahill on the coast of Flintshire. (Pennant, Par. ofWhiteford and Holyicell, p. 112.) [J. Y.]. PHAROS ((papos). [Pallium.] PHASELUS ((pdarjXos), was a vessel ratherlong and narrow, apparently so called from its re-semblance to the shape of a phaselus or kidney-bean. It was chiefly used by the Egyptians,and was of various sizes, from a mere boat to avessel adapted for long voyages. (Virg. Georg. ; Catull. 4 ; Martial, x. 30. 13 ; Cic. ad 13.) Octavia sent ten triremes of this kind,which she had obtained from Antony, to assist herbrother Octavianus ; and Appian (Bell. Civ. v. 95)describes them as a kind of medium between theships of war and the common transport or merchantvessels. The phaselus was built for speed ( ille—navium celerrimus), to which moreattention seems to have been paid than to itsstrength ; whence the epithet fragilis is given toit by Horace. (Carm. iii. 2. 27, 28.) These ves-sels were sometimes made of clay (fictilibusphaselis,Juv. xv. 127), to which the epithet of Horace mayperh
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