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 PHKYGIA PISIDICA. The remaining part of Phiygia was then divided into Fhrygia Salutaris, comprising the eastern part with Synnada for its capital, and Phrygia Pacatiana (sometimes also called Capatiana), which comprised the western part down to the frontiers of Caria. (Notit. Imp. c. 2; Hierocl. pp. 664, 676; Constant. Porph. de Them. i. 1 ; Ducas, p. 42 ; see the ex- cellent article Phrygia in Pauly's Realencyclopaedie, by 0. Abel ; Cramer, Asia Minor, ii. p. 1, &c. ; Niebuhr, Lect. on Anc. Hist. i. p. 83, &c., ii. p. 382.) [L. S.] PHRYGIA PISIDICA. [Pisidia.] PHTHENOTES NOMOS {^e^vSr-ns or ^eevSrov vofiSi, Ptol. iv. 5. § 48 ; Plin. v. 9. s. 9), another name for the Nomos Chemmites in the Aegyptian Delta. [BuTo; Chemmis.] [W. B. D.] PHTHIA. [Phaia.] PHTHIA, PHTHIO'TIS. [Thessalia.] PHTHIRA (*ei>a, Steph. B. s. v ; written *9i> in Meineke's edition of Stephanus), a mountain in Caria, inhabited by the Phthires, is evidently the same as the ^deipwv opos of Homer {II. ii. 868), which, according to Hecataeus, was identical with Mt. Latmus, but which others supposed to be the same as Mt. Grius, running parallel to Mt. Latmus. (Strab. xiv. p. 63.5.) PHTHIRO'PHAGI (^Beipocpdyoi), i. e. "lice- eaters," a Scythian people, so called from their filth and dirt (otf^ tov avxfJ^ou koI tov tt'lvov, Strab. xi. p. 449). Some modern writers endeavour to derive tlieir name from (pGeip, the fruit of the tt'itvs or fir- tree, which served as their food (Ritter, Vorhalle, p. .549), but there can be no doubt, from the expla- nation of Strabo, of the sense in which the word was understood in antiquity. This savage people is variously placed by different writers. According to Strabo they inhabited the mountains of Caucasus (Strab. xi. pp. 492, 499), and according to other writers different parts of the coasts of the Bl;ick Sea. (Arrian, Per. P. Eux. p. 18; Mela, i. 18; Plin. vi. 4.) Ptolemy jilaces them in Asiatic Sai-- matia beyond the Rha (v. 9. § 1 7). According to Pliny (vi 4) they were subsequently called Salae. The Budini are also said to have ate lice (^(pOeipo- rpayeovcrt, Herod, iv. 109). PHTHUTH (4>0ou0, Ptol. iv. 1. § 3; *ouT7jy, Jos. Antiq. i. 6. § 2; Fut, Plin. v. 1), a river of Jlaure- tania, which has been identified with the Wady Ten- sift. In the ethnographic table of Genesis (x. 6), Phut is reckoned among the sons of Ham. This im- mediate descent of Pliut (a nam* which is generally admitted to indicate Mauretania) from Ham indi- cates, like their Greek name, tlie depth of colour which distinguished the Mauretanians. In Ezekiel (.xvii. 10) the men of Phut are represented as serving in the Tyrian armies (comp. xxx. 5,xxxviii. 5); as also in Jeremiah (xlvi. 9) they are sum- moned to the hosts of Aegypt; and in Nahum (iii. 9) they are the helpers of Nineveh. (Winer, Realworlerhuch, s.v.; Kenrick, Phoenicia, pp. 137, 277.) ^ [E. B.J.] PHUNDU'SI (4>ow5oD(Toi), a tribe mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 12) as inhabiting the Chersonesus Cimbrica in the north of Germany, and dwelling north of the Cobandi and Chali. Zeuss {Die Deut- schen, p. 152), without satisfactory reasons, regards tiiem as the same with the Sedusii mentioned by Caesar (B. G. i. 31, 37, 51.) [L. S.] PHURGISATIS {^ovpyLffarU), a town in the south of Germany, mentioned only by Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 30) ; it was situated in the country of the VOL. II. PliYSCELLA. 625 Quadi, and Wilhelm {Germanien, p. 230) believes that it existed in Moravia, in the neighbourhood of Znaim. fL. S.l PHUSIPARA (*ouo-i7rapo), a town of the dis- trict of Melitene in Armenia Minor, between Ciniaca and Eusemara, is mentioned only by Ptolemy (v. 7. § ")• [L. S.] PHYCUS (^vKOvs, Strab. viii. p. 363, xvii. p. 837; Ptol. iv. 4. § 5: Plin. v. 5). the most northerly point of the Libyan coast, 2800 stadia from Taenarum (350 M. P., Plin. I.e.), and 125 M. P. from Crete. (Plin. /. c.) Cato touched at this point in Africa after leaving Crete, hut the natives refused to receive his ships. (Lucan, ix. 40.) Synesius, who has given in his letters {Ep. 51, 100, 114, 129) several particulars about this spot, states that it was dangerous to live here because of the stagnant waters, and their fetid exhalatinns. It had a harbour situated to the ^V., which is confirmed by the Coast-desci-iber {Stadinsm. § 53, where it is by an error called Phoenicus). Scylax (p. 46) placed the gardens and lake of the Hesperides near this headland, now Rds-al-Razat or Ras Stm, where Smyth {Medi- ten-aneaii, p. 455) marks the coast bold and steep, rising gradually to Cyrene. (Pacho, Voyatje, p. 169 ; Barth, Wanderu7irjen, p. 498.) [E. B. J.] PHY'LACE (■fuAd/CTj: Eth. ^^vAaKTjaios.) 1. A. town of Phtiiiotis in Thessaly, one of the places subject to Protesilaus, and frequently mentioned in the Homeric poems. (//. ii. 695, xiii. 696, xv. 335, Od. xi. 290; comp. Apoll. Rhod. i. 45; Steph. B. s. V.) It contained a temple of Protesilaus. (Pind. Istkm. i. 84.) Fliny erroneously calls it a town of Magnesia (iv. 9. s. 16). Strabo describes it as standing between Pharsalus and Phthiotic Thebes, at the distance of about 100 stadia from the latter (ix. pp. 433, 435). Leake places it at about 40 minutes from Ghidek, in the descent from a pass, where there are remains of an ancient town. The situation near the entrance of a pass is well suited to the name of Phylace. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 332, 364.) 2. A town of Molossis in Epeirus, of uncertain site. (Liv. xlv. 26.) 3 A place in Arcadi.i, upon the frontiers of Tegea and Laconia, where the Alpheius rises. (Pans. riii. 54. § 1.) 4. A town of Pieria in Macedonia (Ptol. iii. 13. § 40), the inhabitants of which are mentioned by Pliny under the name of Phylacaei (iv. 10. s. 17). PHYLACEIUM (^vAaiceiov or IliiAa/faTof), a town of western Phrygia, at a short distance from Themisonium. (Ptol. v. 2. § 26 ; Tab. Pent.; G<'0gr. Rav. i. 18, where it is called Filaction.) The Phrygian tribe of the ivXaidivawi, mentioned by Ptolemy (v. 2. § 27), undoubtedly derived its name from this place. [L. S.] PHYLE. [Attica, p. 329, b.] PHYLLEIUM, PHYLLUS. [Asterium.] PHYLLIS (*i/AAij), a district of Thrace in the neighbourhood of Mt. Pangaeus, bounded by the An- gites on the W. and by the Strymon on the S. (Herod, vii. 113; Steph. B. s. v.) PHYRITES, a small tributary of the Caystrus, having its origin in the western branch of Mount Tmolus, and llowing in a southern direction through the Pegasean marsh (Stagnum I'egaseum), dis- charges itself into the Caystrus some distance above Ephcsus. (Plin. V. 31.) [L. S.] PHYSCA, PHYSCUS. [Eordaea.] PHYSCELLA. [Galepsus.]