Phoenicus
PHOENI´CUS (Φοινικοῦς).
1.A port of Ionia, at the foot of Mount Mimas. (Thucyd. 8.34.) Livy (Liv. 36.45) notices it in his account of the naval operations of the Romans and their allies against Antiochus (comp. Steph. B. s. v.); but its identification is not easy, Leake (Asia Minor, p. 263) regarding it as the same as the modern port of Tshesme, and Hamilton (Researches, 2. p. 5) as the port of Egri-Limen.
2.A port of Lycia, a little to the east of Patara; it was scarcely 2 miles distant from the latter place, and surrounded on all sides by high cliffs. In the war against Antiochus a Roman fleet took its station there with a view of taking Patara. (Liv. 37.16.) Beaufort (Karamania, p. 7) observes that Livy's description answers accurately to the bay of Kalamaki. As to Mount Phoenicus in Lycia, see OLYMPUS Vol. 2. p. 480. [L.S]
PHOENI´CUS [PHYCUS]
PHOENI´CUS (Φοινικοῦς λιμην, Strab. 17. p. 799; Ptol. 4.5.7; Stadiasm. § 12), a harbour of Marmarica, off which there were the two islands DIDYMAE, which must not be confounded with those which Ptolemy (Ptol. 4.5.76) places off the Chersonesus Parva on the coast of Aegypt. Its position must be sought between PNIGEUS(Πνίγευς, Strab. l. c.; Ptol. l. c.; Stadiasm. l c. ), which is identified with Râs Tanhub, and Râs-al-Kanaïs.
[E.B.J](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.
- Paus. 4.34.12