PHARÆ, in Ancient Geography, a town of Achaea in Peloponnesus, on the river Pierus, 70 stadia from the sea, and to the south of Patre 150 stadia. Another, of Crete (Pliny); a colony from the Pharae of Messenia (Stephanus). A third Pharae, or Phere (Strabo, Ptolemy); Phara, -æ, (Polybius); a town of Messenia, on the river Nedo (Strabo); on the north side of the Sinus Messenius, and to the north-west of Abea. Anciently read Pharis in Homer (Paufanias, Statius), though now read Phare. Pharite is the name of the people.