Phaeax

• a Phaeacian; usu. plur, the Phaeacians (who lived luxuriously), C., V., O., Iu. —Sing.(poet.), a good liver, well-fed man, H.— Once As adj.: Phaeax populus, Iu.

(Φαίαξ). An Athenian orator and statesman and a contemporary of Nicias and Alcibiades ( Alcib. 13). Some critics maintain that the extant speech against Alcibiades, once commonly attributed to Andocides, was written by Phaeax; but it is now generally held to be the work of a later sophist.