Phayllus

Family: Phocians · Role: commander in chief · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 2

Life events

The Phocians chose Phayllus as commander in chief with unlimited power.(Book 10 · Chapter 2)
- “the Phocians chose his brother Phayllus as commander in chief with unlimited power”
Phayllus developed a wasting disease that fulfilled his dream.(Book 10 · Chapter 2)
- “And he had hardly been invested with this power when he saw the following apparition in a dream. Among the votive offerings of Apollo was an imitation in brass of an old man, with his flesh already wasted away and his bones only left. It was said by the Delphians to have been a votive offering given by Hippocrates the doctor. Phayllus dreamt that he was like this old man, and forthwith a wasting disease came upon him, and fulfilled the dream.”

siblings with Onomarchus (Phayllus is Onomarchus's brother.) “the Phocians chose his brother Phayllus as commander in chief with unlimited power”
child: Phalæcus (Phayllus is the father of Phalæcus.) “And after the death of Phayllus the chief power at Phocis devolved upon his son Phalæcus”

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.