Φάσηλις

Phaselis: a city in Pamphylia, formerly called Pityousa and later Pharsalos; a citizen is a 'Phaselite'. Theodektes too was a Phaselite by descent, the son of Aristandros, distinguished for his beauty. He composed fifty tragedies, treatises on rhetoric, rhetorical speeches and verses as well. He died in Athens, and this elegiac inscription was written for him: This earth enfolds Theodektes the Phaselite, whom the Olympian Muses nurtured... In thirteen sacred contests of [tragic] choruses, I placed eight unblemished wreaths upon myself. Herodianos alone says that Phaselis is an island and that its name is accented on the antepenult. The Alexandrians, however, accent the name of the vessel on the final syllable.