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                    "description": "(adj.adj.) : Phărus or -os, i, f. (m., Suet. Claud. 20), = Φάρος.\n* An island near Alexandria, in Egypt, where King Ptolemy Philadelphus built a famous light-house, hence called pharus, now Faro, Mel. 2, 7, 6; Auct. B. Alex. 19.\n* Transf., of the lighthouse in the island of Pharos: Pharus est in insulā turris, magnā altitudine, mirificis operibus exstructa, quae nomen ab insulā accepit,Caes. B. C. 3, 112: superposuit turrem in exemplum Alexandrini Phari,Suet. Claud. 20; Juv. 6, 83; of other light-houses: pharon subiit,Val. Fl. 7, 84: turris phari terrae motu Capreis concidit,Suet. Tib. 74: Tyrrhena,Juv. 12, 76.\n* A small island on the coast of Dalmatia, formerly called Paros (Parus), now Lesina, Mel. 2, 7, 13.\n* Phărĭăcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pharus, Pharian, Egyptian (post-class.): sistra,App. M. 2, p. 127, 11.\n* Phărĭus, a, um, adj., = Φάριος, of or belonging to Pharus, Pharian; of the lighthouse: flammae,Luc. 9, 1004.—Poet., transf., Egyptian: Pharia juvenca, i. e. Io,  Ov. F. 5, 619; but Isis, Mart. 10, 48, 1; nence, turba,the priests of Isis,Tib. 1, 3, 32: conjux,i. e. Cleopatra,Mart. 4, 11, 4: dolores,the lamentations of the Egyptian women at the festival of Isis for the lost Osiris,Stat. S. 5, 3, 244: piscis,i. e. the crocodile,Ov. A. A. 3, 270: acetum,Juv. 13, 85.—As subst.: Phărĭa, ae, f., Isis: SACRVM PHARIAE, Vet. Kalend. ap. Grut. 138.\n* Phărītae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of Pharos, Auct. B. Alex. 19."
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