Pharos (faros)

[Gr. Φάρος.] An island optposite ancient Alexandria, on which Ptolemy I. and Ptolemy II. Philadelphus erected the celebrated lighthouse Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the world. See Alexandria. Pharpar (fär'pär). In Bible geography, a river of Damascus: the modern Awaj. Pharsalia (fär-sa'li-ä). [Gr. Φαρσαλία.] A district of The aly, ancient Greece, containing the city of Pharsalus (which see). Pharsalia. An epic poem in ten books, by Lucan (M. Annæus Lucanus), on the civil war between Pompey and Cæsar. The scheme [of the Pharsalia] is prosaic, the treatment rhetorical, full of descriptions, speeches, and general reflections; the style is artificially elevated; the whole production youthful and unripe, but indicative of genuine power and lofty, generous motives.