Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Phanodēmus, Pheretīma

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Pheretīma

（Φερετίμα). The wife of Battus III. and mother of Arcesilaüs III., successive kings of Cyrené. After the murder of her son by the Barcaeans, Pheretima fled into Egypt to Aryandes, the viceroy of Darius Hystaspis; and representing that the death of Arcesilaüs had been the consequence of his submission to the Persians, she induced him to avenge it. On the capture of Barca by the Persian army, she caused those who had the principal share in her son's murder to be impaled, and ordered the breasts of their wives to be cut off. Pheretima then returned to Egypt, where she soon after died of a painful and loathsome disease (Herod.iv. 162Herod., 200-205).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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