(Nepos), a village and port of Athens; this last neither large nor commodious, for which reason Themistocles put the Athenians on building the Piraeus; both joined to Athens by long walls. The Phalereus lay nearer the city (Pausanias). Demetrius Phalerus, the celebrated scholar of Theophrastus, was of this place; to whom the Athenians erected above 300 statues; which were afterwards destroyed by his enemies, on his flight to Ptolemy king of Egypt (Strabo). Here Demosthenes was wont to declaim, to accustom his voice to surmount the noise and roaring of the sea; a just and lively emblem of popular assemblies.

PHALEUCIAN verse, in ancient poetry, a kind of verse consisting of five feet; the first of which is a sponde, the second a dactyl, and the three last trochees.