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Phărītae, ārum, and Phărĭus, a, um, v. Pharus, C. and B.

Phărus or -os, i, f. (m., Suet. Claud. 20), = Φάρος.

  1. I. An island near Alexandria, in Egypt, where King Ptolemy Philadelphus built a famous light-house, hence called pharus, now Faro, Mel. 2, 7, 6; Auct. B. Alex. 19.
    1. B. Transf., of the lighthouse in the island of Pharos: Pharus est in insulā turris, magnā altitudine, mirificis operibus exstructa, quae nomen ab insulā accepit, Caes. B. C. 3, 112: superposuit turrem in exemplum Alexandrini Phari, Suet. Claud. 20; Juv. 6, 83; of other light-houses: pharon subiit, Val. Fl. 7, 84: turris phari terrae motu Capreis concidit, Suet. Tib. 74: Tyrrhena, Juv. 12, 76.
    2. C. Transf., poet., Egypt: regina Phari, Stat. S. 3, 2, 102: petimus Pharon arvaque Lagi, Luc. 8, 433.
      Hence,
      1. 1. Phărĭăcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pharus, Pharian, Egyptian (post-class.): sistra, App. M. 2, p. 127, 11.
      2. 2. Phărĭus, a, um, adj., = Φάριος, of or belonging to Pharus, Pharian; of the lighthouse: flammae, Luc. 9, 1004.
        Poet., transf., Egyptian: Pharia juvenca, i. e. Io, Ov. F. 5, 619; but Isis, Mart. 10, 48, 1; nence, turba, the priests of Isis, Tib. 1, 3, 32: conjux, i. e. Cleopatra, Mart. 4, 11, 4: dolores, the lamentations of the Egyptian women at the festival of Isis for the lost Osiris, Stat. S. 5, 3, 244: piscis, i. e. the crocodile, Ov. A. A. 3, 270: acetum, Juv. 13, 85.
        As subst.: Phărĭa, ae, f., Isis: SACRVM PHARIAE, Vet. Kalend. ap. Grut. 138.
      3. 3. Phărītae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of Pharos, Auct. B. Alex. 19.
  2. II. A small island on the coast of Dalmatia, formerly called Paros (Parus), now Lesina, Mel. 2, 7, 13.