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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pharos

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PHAR'OS and PHAR'US (φάρος). A light-house, so termed after the celebrated tower built by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, on the island of Pharos, at the entrance to the port of Alexandria, which became a general model for most others (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 18. Solin. 32. Suet. Tib. 74. Stat. Sylv. iii. 5. 100.) The illustration (Pharos/1.1) represents a light-house on a medal of the Emperor Commodus, composed of a circular tower; others are met with of a square form; and the Roman light-house at Dover Castle, of which considerable remains are still visible, is of an octagonal figure; but they all present the same general features of a tall tower in several stories, diminishing upwards, with windows turned towards the sea, at which torches were kept burning for beacons during the night.

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