Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . t ancientplaces in the island. It was destroyed by the Gor-lynians, who took possession of its territory. ( c.) Its port was Matalum, from whicli it wasdistant 40 stadia, though it was only 20 from thecoast. (Strab. /. c.) We also learn from Strabothat Epimenides was a native of Phaestus. The in-habitants were celebrated for their sharp and wittysayings. (Athen. vi. p. 261, e.) is men-tioned also by Scylax, p. 18; Polyb. iv. .55. Stephanus B. («. v. ^aiffrds) mentions in theterritory of Phaestus a place called Lisses, which heidentifi
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . t ancientplaces in the island. It was destroyed by the Gor-lynians, who took possession of its territory. ( c.) Its port was Matalum, from whicli it wasdistant 40 stadia, though it was only 20 from thecoast. (Strab. /. c.) We also learn from Strabothat Epimenides was a native of Phaestus. The in-habitants were celebrated for their sharp and wittysayings. (Athen. vi. p. 261, e.) is men-tioned also by Scylax, p. 18; Polyb. iv. .55. Stephanus B. («. v. ^aiffrds) mentions in theterritory of Phaestus a place called Lisses, which heidentifies with a rock in the Odyssey (iii. 293),where in our editions it is not used as a proper name,but as an adjective,—Ataai], smooth. Strabo(I. c.) mentions a place Olysses or Olysse in theterritory of Phaestus (jOXvaffrjv Tfjj •iaicrTias) ;but this name is evidently corrupt; and instead of itwe ought probably to read Lisses. This place mustnot be confounded with Lissus, which w-as 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 Peneins. 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-Jiari, where are the ruins of a fortress of no greatextent, and the port of Apollo near (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 621.) 4. The later name of Phrixa in Triphylia in Elis. [PlIRlXA.] PHAGKES (*a7p7js, Hecat. up. Steph. B. s. v.;Herod, vii. 112; Time. ii. 99 ; Scyl. p. 27 ; p. 331, Fr. 33), a fortress in the Picric hollow,and the first place after the passage of the is identified with the post station of Or/and, ontiic great road from Greece to Constantinople, whereGreek coins have been often found, and, among PlIALASARNA. other small productions of Hellenic art, oval slingbullets of
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