Demonstrative and offensive whiskers, which are the special inheritance of the British Philistines.--Mrs. Oliphant, _Phœbe, Junr._, i. 2. =Phillips= (_Jessie_), the title and chief character of a novel by Mrs. Trollope, the object being an attack on the new poor-law system (1843). =Phillis=, a drama written in Spanish, by Lupercio Leonardo, of Argensola.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_ (1605-15). _Phillis_, a pastoral name for a maiden. Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savory dinner set, Of herbs and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. Milton, _L’Allegro_ (1638). _Phillis_, “the Exigent,” asked “Damon thirty sheep for a kiss;” next day, she promised him thirty[TN-89] kisses for a sheep;” the third day, she would have given “thirty sheep for a kiss;” and the fourth day, Damon bestowed his kisses for nothing on Lizette.--C. Rivière Dufresny, _La Coquette de Village_ (1715). =Philo=, a Pharisee, one of the Jewish sanhedrim, who hated Caiaphas, the high priest, for being a Sadducee. Philo made a vow in the judgment hall, that he would take no rest till Jesus was numbered with the dead. In bk. xiii. he commits suicide, and his soul is carried to hell by Obaddon, the angel of death.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, iv. (1771). =Philoc´lea=, one of the heroines in Sir Philip Sidney’s “Arcadia.” It has been sought to identify her with Lady Penelopê Devereux, with whom Sidney was thought to be in love. =Philocte´tes= (4 _syl._) one of the Argonauts, who was wounded in the foot while on his way to Troy. An oracle declared to the Greeks that Troy could not be taken “without the arrows of Herculês,” and as Herculês at death had given them to Philoctētês, the Greek chiefs sent for him, and he repaired to Troy in the tenth and last year of the siege. All dogs have their day, even rabid ones. Sorrowful, incurable _Philoctetês_ Marat, without whom Troy cannot be taken.--Carlyle. =Philomel=, daughter of Pandīon, king of Attica. She was converted into a nightingale. =Philosopher= (_The_), Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Roman emperor, was so called by Justin Martyr (121, 161-180). Leo VI., emperor of the East (866, 886-911). Porphyry, the Neoplatonist (223-304). Alfred or Alured, surnamed “Anglicus,” was also called “The Philosopher” (died 1270). =Philosopher of China=, Confucius (B.C. 551-479). =Philosopher of Ferney=, Voltaire, who lived at Ferney, near Geneva, for the last twenty years of his life (1694-1778). =Philosopher of Malmesbury=, Thomas Hobbs, author of _Leviathan_. He was born at Malmesbury (1588-1679). =Philosopher of Persia= (_The_), Abou Ebn Sina, of Shiraz (died 1037). =Philosopher of Sans Souci=, Frederick the Great of Prussia (1712, 1740-1786). ⁂ Frederick, elector of Saxony, was called “The Wise” (1463, 1544-1554).