Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . hop. Itmay also be remarked that Phaselis was the birth-place of Theodectes, a tragic poet and rhetorician ofsome note. (Steph. B. s. v.; comp. Scylax, p. 39;Ptol. V. 3. § 3, 5. § 2 ; Eckhel, Doctr. Num. 6.) There are still considerable remains of theancient Phaselis. The lake in its vicinity, saysBeaufort (Karamania, p. 56), is now a mere swamp,occupying the middle of the isthmus, and was pro-bably the source of those baneful exhalations which,according to Livy and Cicero, rendered Phaselis sounhealthy. The principal port was formed by astone p
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . hop. Itmay also be remarked that Phaselis was the birth-place of Theodectes, a tragic poet and rhetorician ofsome note. (Steph. B. s. v.; comp. Scylax, p. 39;Ptol. V. 3. § 3, 5. § 2 ; Eckhel, Doctr. Num. 6.) There are still considerable remains of theancient Phaselis. The lake in its vicinity, saysBeaufort (Karamania, p. 56), is now a mere swamp,occupying the middle of the isthmus, and was pro-bably the source of those baneful exhalations which,according to Livy and Cicero, rendered Phaselis sounhealthy. The principal port was formed by astone pier, at the western side of the isthmus; itprojected about 200 yards into the sea, by whichit has been entirely overthrown. The theatre isscooped out of the hill, and fronting it are the re-mains of several large buildings. There are alsonumerous sarcophagi, some of them of the whitestmarble, and of very neat workmanship. The modernname of Phaselis is Tekrova. (Comp. Fellows,Asia Minor, p. 211, foil.; Leake, Asia Minor,p. 190.) [L. S.]. COIN OF PHASELIS. PHASIANI (a(naioi), a tribe in the easternpart of Pontus, on the river Phasis, from which boththey and the district called ^affiav)) X^P derivedtheir names. (Xenoph. Anah. iv. 6. § 5, vii. 8. §25 ; Diodor. xiv. 29; Eustath. ad Dionys. ) ^ [L. S.] PHASIS (a(Tjs), a navigable river in Colchis, onthe east of the Euxine, which was regarded in ancienttimes as forming the boundary between Europe andAsia, and as the remotest point in the east to whicha sailer on the Euxine could proceed. (Strab. xi. ; Eustath. ad Dionys. Per. 687; Arrian, ^. 19; Herod, iv. 40; Plat. Phaed. ; Anonym. Peripl. Pont. p. 1; Procop. iv. 2, 6.) Subsequently it came to be lookedupon as forming the boundary line between AsiaJlinor and Colchis. Its sources are in the southern-most part of the Montes !Moschici (Plin. vi. 4; ); and as these mountains were sometimes re-garded as a part of Mount Caucasus, Ari
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