=Pha´on=, a young man who loved Claribel, but being told that she was unfaithful to him, watched her. He saw, as he thought, Claribel holding an assignation with some one he supposed to be a groom. Returning home, he encountered Claribel herself, and “with wrathfull hand he slew her innocent.” On the trial for murder, “the lady” was proved to be Claribel’s servant. Phaon would have slain her also, but while he was in pursuit of her he was attacked by Furor.--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, ii. 4, 28, etc. (1590). ⁂ Shakespeare’s _Much Ado about Nothing_ is a similar story. Both are taken from a novel by Belleforest, copied from one by Bandello. Ariosto, in his _Orlando Furioso_, has introduced a similar story (bk. v.), and Turbervil’s _Geneura_ is the same tale. =Pharamond=, king of the Franks, who visited, _incognito_, the court of King Arthur, to obtain by his exploits a place among the knights of the Round Table. He was the son of Marcomir, and father of Clodion. Calprenède has an heroic romance so called, which (like his _Cleopatra and Cassandra_) is a _Roman de Longue Haleine_ (1612-1666). _Pharamond_, prince of Spain, in the drama called _Philaster_, or _Love Lies a-bleeding_, by Beaumont and Fletcher (date uncertain, probably about 1662). =Pharaoh=, the titular name of all the Egyptian kings till the time of Solomon, as the Roman emperors took the titular name of Cæsar. After Solomon’s time, the titular name Pharaoh never occurs alone, but only as a forename, as Pharaoh Necho, Pharaoh Hophra, Pharaoh Shishak. After the division of Alexander’s kingdom, the kings of Egypt were all called Ptolemy, generally with some distinctive after-name, as Ptolemy Philadelphos, Ptolemy Euergetês, Ptolemy Philopător, etc.--Selden, _Titles of Honor_, v. 50 (1614). _Pharaohs before Solomon_ (mentioned in the Old Testament): 1. Pharaoh contemporary with Abraham (_Gen._ xii. 15). This may be Osirtesen I. (dynasty xii.). 2. The _good_ Pharaoh who advanced Joseph (_Gen._ xli.). This was, perhaps, Apōphis (one of the Hyksos). 3. The Pharaoh who “knew not Joseph” (_Exod._ i. 8). This may be Amen´ophis I. (dynasty xviii.). The king, at the flight of Moses, I think, was Thothmes II. 4. The Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea. As this was at least eighty years after the persecutions began, probably this was another king. Some say it was Menephthes, son of Ram´eses II., but it seems quite impossible to reconcile the account in _Exodus_ with any extant historical account of Egypt (_Exod._ xiv. 28). Was it Thothmes III.? 5. The Pharaoh who protected Hadad (1 _Kings_ xi. 19). 6. The Pharaoh whose daughter Solomon married (1 _Kings_ iii. 1; ix. 16). I think this was Psusennes I. (dynasty xxi.). _Pharaohs after Solomon’s time_ (mentioned in the Old Testament): 1. Pharaoh Shishak, who warred against Rehoboam (1 _Kings_ xiv. 25, 26; 2 _Chron._ xii. 2). 2. The Pharaoh called “So” king of Egypt, with whom Hoshea made an alliance (2 _Kings_ xvii. 4).