Pha'rnaces
(
Φαρνάκης).
1. The progenitor of the kings of Cappadocia, who is himself styled by Diodorus king of that country.
He is said to have married Atossa, a sister of Camrbyses, the faiher of Cyrus; by whom he had a son named Gallus, who was the great-grandfather of Anaphas, one of the seven Persians who slew the Magi. (Diod. xxxi.
Exc. Phot. p. 517.) [ANAPHAS].
But the whole genealogy is probably fictitious.