PHOENI´CUS
PHOENI´CUS (
Φοινικοῦς).
1.
A port of Ionia, at the foot of Mount Mimas. (
Thuc. 8.34.) Livy (
36.45) notices it in his account of the naval operations of the Romans and their allies against Antiochus (comp.
Steph. B. sub voce 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, ii. 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. II. p. 480. [
L.S]
