Phalaris, a tyrant of Agrigentum, in Sicily, in the 6th century, who is said, among other cruelties, to have roasted the victims of his tyranny in a brazen bull which bears his name; the “Letters of Phalaris,” at one time ascribed to him, have been proved to be spurious.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Phalanx * Phallus