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Phyle, a demus and citadel of Attica, of the tribe jEneis, 15 m., N.\v. of Athens Hither Thrasybulus retired. Bigta Cas­tro. Phylleius m., a hill of Phthiotis, in Thes-

saly, bet, Demetrias and Phyllus.

Phyllis regio, a district of Thrace, in the

territory of the Edones, bet. Pangseus m.

and Angites fl.

Phyllus, a town of Phthiotis, in Thessaly,

under Phylleius m., x.w. of Demetrias.

With a famous temple of Apollo Phylleius.

Phyrco.n, a fortress of Elis.

Phyrites fl., a r. of Ionia, rising in Tmolus

m. s.w., and falling into Caystrus fl. at

Pegaseum Stagnum.

Phyrocastrum, a fortress of Cilicia prefec­ture, in Cappadocia.

Physca, I. a town of Grestonia, in Mace­donia, N.w. of Terpillus. II. a maritime town of the Tyrangeta;, Sarmatia, bet. Hermonactis and Isiacus portus.

Physcella, a town of Sithonia, near Toron.

Physcon (Tornadotus) fl., a r. of Assyria, falling into the Tigris at Opis.

Physcus m., I. the termination, towards the Ionian sea, of Clibauus m., in Brut-tium. II. prom., i. cj. Phycus. III. a town of Eordsea, in Macedonia. Named after Pliyscus, the first chief of the Eordi orLeleges. IV. (Physca), a port of Pergea, in Caria. The Rhodian emporium of Ephesus. With a grove of Latona. Contra Mantivra.

Phytedm, a town of the Eurytanes, jEtolia, near the s.w. shore of Triclionius lacus, s.w. of Metapa. Named after Phoetius, •on of Alcmajon. II. a town of Elis.

Phytia (Phcetise), a town of Acarnania, on or near Anapus fl., N.w. of Metropolis. Founded by Phoetius, son of Alcmseon. Aeto.

Piala (Piada), a town of Serica, on CEchardes fl., bet. Amasia (15) and Coloe (12).

Pialia, a town of the jTSthices, in Thessaly, uiuicr Cercetius m., N. of Phaloria. Pali.

Pice.ni (Picentes), a tribe of Sabines set­tled in tlie country bet. Sabinium Proper and the Adriatic, N. of the Vestiui. Named, according to Festus, from the bird picus, under the guidance of which they fixed upon this settlement; according to Silius Italicus, from a leader so named.

Picenses, an early people of Dacia.

Pickntia, an Etruscan city, capital of the Piccntini, in Campania, on Via Aquilia, bet. Salernum (7) and Ad Tanarum, on Psestanus sin. Vicenza.

Picentini, the descendants of those inhabit-

ants of Picenum, whom the Romans, after the conquest of that city, settled in Cam­pania, on and above Psestanus sin. Picentinum, a town of the Andizetes, Pan-nonia, bet. Leuconum (20) and Inicerum (25). Orhoricz.

Picenum, the country of the Piceni, in Italy, bounded N.e. and E. by the Adriatic, x.w. by Umbria, s.w. by the Sabini and Marsi, s. by the Peligni and Marrucini at Atcrnus fl. Subjugated by Rome 270 B.c. By Augustus it was nominated the fifth region of Italy. It was noted for its agricultural produce, and peculiarly for its apples. Picinian'a, a town of Sicily, f) m. from

Agrigentum. Arayona. Pici, a people of Sarmatia Asiatics, on Mseo-

tis palus.

Picis lacus, a lake of Zacynthus, near Ar­cadia.

Picti (Pecht-dich, Gaelic, "thieves"), a tribe of Scandinavians, who settled on the E. shores of Britannia Barbara, and were ulti­mately exterminated by, or fused with, the Picts. Some of the Rorr,an writers imagined that the term, as they rendered it, meant that the people painted them­selves.

Pictones (Pictavi), a people of Aquitania II., on the Liger, L., towards its mouth. La Vendee and Loire Inferieure, s. and s.w., &c.

Pictonum prom., a pr. of Aquitania II., s. of the mouth of the Liger. Pointe de VAigvMlun; Pointe de Boisnivet ? Picuentum, a town of Istria. Pi-cus, a town of Zeugitana, under Cirna m.,

s. bet. Aquilianis and Teglata. Pidosus ins., an isl. of Caria, off Halicar-nassus.

Engit.*:, a people of Sarmatia, under Car-pathus m.

Piephigi, a tribe of Getse, on the Danube, E. of the Ciagisi, on Ordessus fl. and Naparis fl. Piera fons, a stream of Pisatis, in Elis, x.w.

of Olympia.

Pieres, a Pclasgic people settled in Picria, Macedonia, who, expelled by the Temenidse, formed a new settlement beyond Strymon fl.

Piehia, I. the country of the Pieres, Mace­donia, bounded N. by Bottisea, s. by Thes­saly, "w. by Elymzea, Eordaea, and Olympus m., E. by Thermaicus sin. II. a district of Syria, towards Issicus sin. Named from its mountain range Pierius. III. a town of Estiseotis, in Thessaly, N.w. of Metro­polis. IV. silva, a wood near Pydaa, in Macedonia. Noted for its pitch.