Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Phliasia, Phoenīcus

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Phoenīcus

（Φοινικοῦς).

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Also called Phoenix; a harbour on the southern shore of Crete (Acts, xxvii. 12).

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A harbour in Messenia.

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A harbour of Ionia.

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A city of some size in the southern part of Lycia; on Mount Olympus, whence the city itself is also sometimes called Olympus (Strabo, p. 666). Under the Romans it was a rendezvous for pirates and was destroyed by Servilius Isauricus. See Vatia.

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

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