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τὸν Ἑ. τὸν παρὰ τὸ Φ.] ‘The Hermes by the Phorbanteum’ — the ἡρῷον of Phorbas, perh. the hero of that name worshipped in Rhodes as having banished snakes from the island (Diod. v. 58), and also famed in myth as a boxer (schol. ad Hom. Il. XXIII. 660, etc.). The idea of παρά with accus., in such general indications of position, is — ‘that which one sees when one goes past’ the place. We may render it ‘by’. παρά with dat., ‘beside’, is more precise.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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