) years, when it makes a
nest of spices, burns itself to ashes, and comes forth with renewed life
for another similar period. There never was but one phoenix.

The bird of Arabye ... Can never dye,
And yet there is none, But only one,
A phoenix ... Plinni showeth al In his _Story Natural_,
What he doth finde Of the phoenix kinde.

J. Skelton, _Philip Sparow_ (time, Henry VIII.).

=Phoenix Tree=, the raisin, an Arabian tree. Floro says: "There never was
but one, and upon it the phoenix sits."--_Dictionary_ (1598).

Pliny thinks the tree on which the phoenix was supposed to perch is the
date tree (called in Greek _phoinix_), adding that "the bird died with
the tree, and revived of itself as the tree revived."--_Nat. Hist._,
xiii. 4.

Now I will believe
That there are unicorns; that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.

Shakespeare, _The Tempest_, act iii. sc. 3 (1609).

=Phorcus=, "the old man of the sea." He had three daughters, with only one
eye and one tooth between 'em.--_Greek Mythology._

This is not "the old man of the sea" mentioned in the _Arabian Nights_
("Sindbad the Sailor").

=Phor'mio=, a parasite, who is "all things to all men."--Terence,
_Phormio_.

=Phosphor=, the light-bringer or morning star; also called _Hesp[)e]rus_,
and by Homer and Hesiod _He[^o]s-ph[)o]ros_.

Bright Phosphor, fresher for the night,
Sweet Hesper-Phosphor, double name.

Tennyson, _In Memoriam_, cxxi. (1850).

=Phos'phorus=, a knight called by Tennyson "Morning Star," but, in the
_History of Prince Arthur_, "Sir Persaunt of India, or the Blue Knight."
One of the four brothers who kept the passages to Castle
Perilous.--Tennyson, _Idylls_ ("Gareth and Lynette"); Sir T. Malory,
_History of Prince Arthur_, i. 131 (1470).

[Asterism] It is evidently a blunder to call the _Blue_ Knight "Morning
Star," and the _Green_ Knight "Evening Star." In the old romance, the
combat with the "Green Knight," is at dawn, and with the "Blue Knight"
at nightfall. The error arose from not bearing in mind that our
forefathers began the day with the preceding eve, and ended it at
sunset.

=Phraortes= (3 _syl._), a Greek admiral.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of
Paris_ (time, Rufus).

=Phry'ne= (2 _syl._), an Athenian courtezan of surpassing beauty.
Apell[^e]s's celebrated picture of "Venus Anadyom[)e]n[^e