the same with Phrensy; an inflammation of the meninges of the brain, attended with an acute fever and delirium. See Medicine, n° 284.

PHYRGIA, an extensive country of the Hither Asia, on this side mount Taurus, and the river Halys. Reckoned by the ancients twofold, viz. the Greater and Lesser, (Livy, Ptolemy.) The Lesser Phrygia seems to have consisted of two parts; one nearer the Hellespont, from which it is called Hellspontica; the other, which was to the south of Bithynia, about Olympus, more remote from the Hellespont, and under the dominion of Prusias; but which was afterwards ceded to the Attalii, or to Eumenes, by them called Epictetos; which in a laxer sense denotes the Minor Phrygia, or the Lesser; but in a stricter, is distinct from the Phrygia on the Hellespont, and lies at the foot of Olympus, a mountain of Mylia, on the confines of Bithynia; so that we have three Phrygias; Major, Minor, and Epictetos.