Phoenīcus
(
Φοινικοῦς).
1.
Also called
Phoenix; a harbour on the southern
shore of Crete (Acts, xxvii. 12).
2.
A harbour in Messenia.
3.
A harbour of Ionia.
4.
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.