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| | Phasis |
 | | City of Colchis, at the mouth of the river by the same name (today's Rion, in the Republic of Georgia), along the eastern shore of the Black Sea, at the foot of Caucasus (area 8). |
 | | Phasis was the capital of the kingdom of Æetes, a son of Helios (the Sun), and the brother of Circe (the enchantress who detained Ulysses for a year) and of Pasiphae (the wife of Minos, the king of Crete). |
 | | For Herodotus, the river Phasis marked the boundary between Europe north and Asia south (Histories, IV, 45). |
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