Pharbaethius
Φάρβαιθος
Pharbaethius (Φάρβαιθος, Ptol. 4.5.52; Steph. B. sub voce: Eth. Φαρβαιθίτης, Hdt. 2.166; Φαρβητίτης, Strab. xvii. p.802), the capital of the Pharbaethite Nome in Lower Aegypt. (Plin. Nat. 5.9. s. 9.) It stood W. of the Pelusian arm of the Nile, 16 miles S. of Tanais. The nome was a Praefectura under the Roman emperors; and under the Pharaohs was one of the districts assigned to the Calasirian division of the Aegyptian army. Pharbaethus is now Horbeyt, where the French Commission found some remains of Aegyptian statuary (Champollion, l'Egypte, vol. ii. p. 99).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.