PHOCÆA, the last town of Ionia, (Mela, Pliny); of Æolis, (Ptolemy), because situated on the right or north side of the river Hermus, which he makes the boundary of Æolis to the south. It stood far in the land, on a bay or arm of the sea; had two very safe harbours, the one called Lampeter, the other Nausithmos, (Livy). It was a colony of Ionians, situated in the territory of Æolis, (Herodotus). Massilia in Gaul was again a colony from it. Phocæenses, the people, (Livy); Phocæicus, the epithet, (Lucan); applied to Marseilles. It was one of the 12 cities which assembled in the panionium, or general council of Ionia.