PIFINEUS, AV./1MS. r. A famous sooth sayer, son of King Agenor, of Phoenicia, or of Neptune, became king of Salmydessus, in Thrace, or, according to others, of Bithynia, and married Boreas's daughter Cleopatra (Cleobale), who bore him Plexippus and Pan dion, and, after her death, Darclainus's daughter Idwa (also called Dia, Eurytia, Danae,Idothea), who, jealous of his affection for Cleopatra s children, falsely accused them of treason, for which Phineus caused them to be blinded. For this cruelty Jupiter blinded him, and sent the Harpies to haunt his tables and taint his food, till he was delivered from them, on the Argo nauts' visit, by Zethes and Calais, who pur sued the monsters to the Strophades ; and Phineus, as reward, informed the Argonauts of the best course for Colchis. He was killed by Hercules. a. See ANDROMEDA.
!Mire-it-as (see DAMON). PHLEGETHON (-ontis), Ahlig'4-tkan, a river of hell, whose stream consisted of flames. PHLEGRA, thlie-nn, the peninsula in Mace donia, afterwards called Pallera (q. v.), where the giants in their war with the gods were defeated by Hercules. The combat was re
newed on the Phlegraii Canz'15i, the volcanic coast plain in Campania, between Cumm and Capua.
PHLEr,vx, fik/44)-ce, a mythical race of Thessaly, who plundered and burnt Apollo's temple at Delphi, and some of whom settled at Phocis. They were descendants of King Ph/41as (-w), of Orchomenos, in Bceotia, who was son of Mars and Chryse (daughter of King Halmus, of the Lapithw), and father of Ixton and Coranis. When Coronis bore lEsculapius to Apollo, her father, in anger, ' burnt the god's temple, for which Apollo slew huh with his darts, and condemned him to severe punishment in Tartarus.
Pitmus (-untis), phli'-us, the capita of PHLIASIA, the small district be- tween Sicyonia, Arcadia, and Argiilis, in north-eastern Peloponnesus.
Pitoc.en,,bh4-cd-a, the northernmost coast city of Ionia, early rose to naval power, and founded many colonies, and among these Massilia (now Marseilles), when the Phecmans emigrated on Cyrus trying to conquer them.