{Apfim,  Bd{.  MUlarad.,  c.  li£0.— 2>u>-0«««.,  I.  c)

PbabmacIi,  a  eity  of  Pontua,  on  rtw  seacOatt,  and
in  thi  tarritory  of  the  Moqiwsci.  It  it  nrraiwaaly
confonndtd  witb  Oensoa  hj  Airum  (Firtpj.,  p.  17),
ivUle  the  aiMRijrinoOB  geograpber^  though  in  toia  in-
■tanoe  lucopioa  that  writor,  yeta/tcrward  placoa  Cora-
ma  630  atadia  farther  to  tha  eaal  (p.  13).  It  ^uM
be  obaenod,  alio,  that  Sixabo  aaya  that  Cotjronun,  and
feoC'  Ceraana,'  bad  contribotod  to  tbe  fbniidatiOQ  of
Fhanaeia  {Slnb»,-64B}i  and. ha  iftenrard  natnaa
CeiMiia  a«  a  aiwU  nlaco  dUtinet  rtom  that  town  and
DHM  IV^MCna.  ,Plmyi  morcovar,  dbtinguiahea  I^ar-
■■eia  and  Canaus^  and  be  bectdes' informa  ue  that  the
war  100  milea  fronn  Trapexua  (ft,  4).  Xeno-
pben  and  the  Oreeka  were  three  daya  on  Ibeir  maFcb
from  IVapesuB  to  Ceraaua,  a  ^paice  of  time  too  ahort
lo  aceoaiptiah  a  route  of' 100  milea  ow  a  diffcutt
cooBtrjr.  {Amk.j  4, 8,  5.)  It  ia  appaniit;  tbwefora,
Ifaat  Ibe  Ceiiaaa  uf  Xenophon  is  not  to  be  identified
with  Phaniaeia,  tbougfa  it  might  be  tbwvbt  so  in  Arri'
mn'e  time;  and  it  ia' raniarltable  that  thie  erroneDua
•phtion  ahouid  have  pnniled  ao  stiODgl^  as  to  leave
the  name  of  Kerttoun  to  the  site  odcapied  by  tbe  an-
cient Phamacia.  With  reapect  to  this  latter  place,  it
appears  to  have  bMn  founded  by  P^tamacea,  grandfa-
tM-  of  MiUuadate*  the  Oteat,  llwugbwo  bay*  no  poo-
iliTC  aulMrh^  fcr  tbe  laet.  We  know  odIj  that  it  ex-
iated  in  the  itme  of  the  laat-mantioned  monarch,  aince
k  is  spoken  of  in  Plutarch'a  Life  Of  LuctiUns.  Mai^-
oert  ia  inclined  to  think,  that  Pbaniacia  waa  Aiunded  on
tbe  silaoTa  Gitek  seltlem^t  named  Choaradea,  which
Scylax  plaeea  in  thia  vicimty  (p.  33>.  It  is  also  n»-
tioM  bjr  StaphamM,  of  %saotinm  ■»  a  town  of..the
Moajnoeei,  on  'the  antberity  of  Htecatwn  (a.  o.  XotpA-
i»f.~Mamiert,  Otogr.,  vol.  S.  pt.  8,  p.  386. — Cra-
MrVilna  jMinor,  vol.  1,  p.  381).
