On
thocles, and his reign is referred by Professor Wil the approach of that monarch, Pantauchus hastened
son to about B.
thocles, and his reign is referred by Professor Wil the approach of that monarch, Pantauchus hastened
son to about B.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
Orest.
33.
)
[L. S. ] fall of both the consuls at Mutina in the month of
PANOPION, URBI'NIUS, was proscribed by April in the latter year, together with references to
the triumvirs in B. C. 43, but was preserved by the all the ancient authorities.
extraordinary fidelity of one of his slaves who ex- There is a large number of coins bearing the
changed dresses with his master, dismissed him by name of Pansa, of which we give three specimens
the back-door as the soldiers were entering the below. The first of these has on the obverse the
villa, then placed himself in the bed of Panopion,
and allowed himself to be killed as if he were the
latter. Panopion afterwards testified bis gratitude
by erecting a handsome monument over his slave
(Val. Max. vi. 8. $ 6; Macrob. Saturn. i. 11).
Appian calls the master Appius (B. C. iv. 44); and
Dion Cassius (xlvii. 10) and Seneca (de Benef iji.
25) relate the event, but without mentioning any
PANOPTES. [Argus. ]
Dame.
COIN OF C. VIBIUS PANSA.
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head of Apollo, and on the reverse Pallas in a his labours before his death appears from an ex-
chariot drawn by four horses ; it is supposed by pression of Eusebius (H. E. v. 10), TEREUTV
Eckhel more ancient than the time of the consul, yeital
. We do not know the exact date of his
and is therefore referred by him to the father or death, but it cannot have been prior to A. D. 211,
grandfather of the latter. The next two coins as he lived to the time of Caracalla. His name has
belong to the consul. The former bears on the a place in the calendar of the Roman Church, on
obverse the head of Bacchus, and on the reverse the seventh of July. He was succeeded by Cle-
Ceres in a chariot drawn by two dragons: the mens Alexandrinus. This, with some other points,
latter has on the obverse a youthful head, and on has been disputed by Dodwell (ad Irenaeum, p.
the reverse Ceres with a torch in each of her hands 501, &c. ), who makes Pantaenus to be not the pre-
and with a pig by her side. (Eckhel, vol. v. decessor, but the successor of Clemens. He was a
p. 339. )
man of much eloquence, if we may trust the
opinion of Clemens, who calls him a Sicilian bee.
Both Eusebius and Jerome speak of his writings,
the latter mentioning his Commentaries on the
Scriptures, but we have not even a fragment of
them. Cave states that he is numbered by Ana-
stasius of Sinai amongst the commentators who re-
ferred the six days' work of the Creation to Christ
VIS and the Church. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p.
569 ; Cave, Apostolici, p. 127, &c. , Hist. Lit. vol.
i. p. 81, &c. ; Euseb. H. E. v. 10. ) [W. M. G. ]
PANTA'LEON (Tartaléwv), historical. l. A
son of Alyattes, king of Lydia, by an Ionian woman.
His claim to the throne in preference to his brother
Crocsus was put forward by his partisans during
the lifetime of Alyattes, but that monarch decided
in favour of Croesus. (Herod. i. 92. )
2. Son of Omphalion, was king or tyrant of
Pisa in Elis at the period of the 34th Olympiad
COINS OF C. VIBIUS PANSA, Cos, R. C. 43.
(B. C. 644), assembled an army, with which he
made himself master of Olympia, and assumed
PA'NTACLES (Tartakañs), an Athenian, im- by force the sole presidency of the Olympic
mortalized by Aristophanes as a preeminently games on that occasion. The Eleans on this
stupid man, who, preparing to conduct a procession, account would not reckon this as one of the
put on his helmet before he fixed the crest to it. regular Olympiads. (Paus. vi. 21. § 1, 22. & 2. )
He was ridiculed also for his stupidity by Eupolis We learn also from Strabo that Pantaleon assisted
in the Xpvooûv yévos. (Arist. Ran. 1034 ; Schol. the Messenians in the second Messenian war
ad loc. ; comp. Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec
. (Strab. viii. p. 362), which, according to the chro-
vol. i. p. 145, ii. p. 544. )
[E. E. ) nology of Pausanias, followed by Mr. Clinton, niust
PANTAENUS (Távtalvos), the favourite pre- have been as much as thirty years before ; but
ceptor of Clemens Alexandrinus. Of what country C. O. Müller and Mr. Grote regard the intervention
he was originally, is uncertain. Cave endeavours to of Pantaleon as furnishing the best argument for
reconcile the various accounts by conjecturing that the real date of the war in question. (Clinton,
he was of Sicilian parentage, but that he was born in F. H. vol. i. p. 188 ; Müller's Dorians, vol. i.
Alexandria. In this city he was undoubtedly edu- p. 171 ; Grote's Greece, vol. ii. p. 574. )
cated, and embraced the principles of the stoical school 3. A Macedonian of Pydna, an officer in the
of philosophy. We do not find it mentioned who the service of Alexander, who was appointed by him
parties were that instructed him in the truths of governor of Memphis, B. C. 331. (Arr. Anab. iii. 5.
Christianity, but we learn from Photius (Cod. 118) Š 4. )
that he was taught by those who had seen the 4. An Aetolian, one of the chief citizens and
Apostles, though his statement that he had heard political leaders of that people, who was the prin-
some of the Apostles themselves justly appears to cipal author of the peace and alliance concluded by
Cave chronologically impossible. About A. D. 181, the Aetolians with Aratus and the Achaeans, B. c.
he had acquired such eminence that he was ap- | 239. (Plut. Arat. 33. ) He was probably the same
pointed master of the catechetical school in Alex- as the father of Archidamus, mentioned by Poly-
andria, an office which he discharged with great bius (iv. 57).
reputation for nine or ten years. At this time the 5. An Aétolian, probably a grandson of the pre-
learning and piety of Pantaenus suggested him as ceding, is first mentioned as one of the ambassadors
a proper person to conduct a missionary enterprise charged to bear to the Roman general, M. Acilius
to India Of his success there we know nothing. Glabrio, the unqualified submission of the Aeto-
But we have a singular story regarding it told by lians, B. c. 191. (Polyb. xx. 9. ) Again, in B. C.
St. Jerome. It is said that he found in India a 169 he appears as one of the deputies at Thermus
copy of St. Matthew's Gospel, written in Hebrew, before C. Popillius, when he uttered a violent
which had been left by St. Bartholomew, and that harangue against Lyciscus and Thoas. (Id. xxviii.
he brought it back with him to Alexandria. He 4. ) He is also mentioned as present with Eu-
probably resumed his place in the catechetical menes at Delphi, when the life of that monarch
school, which had been filled during his absence by was attempted by the emissaries of Perseus. On
his pupil and friend Clemens. The persecution this occasion he is termed by Liry · Aetoliae
under Severus, A. D. 202, drove both Pantaenus princeps. ” (Liv. xlii. 15. )
and Clemens into Palestine ; but that he resumed 6. A king of Bactria, or rather perhaps of the
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PANTAUCHUS.
PANTULEIUS.
:
Indo-Caucasian provinces south of the Paropa- | high place among the generals of Demetrius Poli-
misus, known only from his coins. From these it orcetes, who in B C. 289 left him with a large force
appears probable that he was the snccessor of Aga- to bold possession of Aetolia against Pyrrhus.
On
thocles, and his reign is referred by Professor Wil the approach of that monarch, Pantauchus hastened
son to about B. c. 120 (Ariana, p. 300); but Lassen to meet him, and give him battle, when a single
would assign it to a much earlier period. (Lassen, combat ensued between the young king and the
Zur Gesch. d. Griechischen Künigen o. Buktrien, veteran officer, in which the former was victorious.
pp. 192, 263. ) The coins of these two kings, Pantauchus was carried off the field severely
Agathocles and Pantaleon, are remarkable as beatro wounded, and his arms was totally routed. Whe-
ing inscriptions both in the Greek and in Sanscrit ther or not he died of his wounds we know note
characters.
(E. H. B. ) but his name is not again mentioned. (Plut.
PANTALEON (Tartaléwv), literary. 1. A Pyrrh. 7, Demetr. 41. )
writer on culinary subjects, mentioned by Pollux 2. Son of Balacrus, one of the chief friends and
(vi. 70), where the old reading, Mavtohéwv, is un counsellors of Perseus, king of Macedonia, by whom
doubtedly inaccurate.
we find him employed on various iinportant confi-
2. A Constantinopolitan deacon and charto- dential occasions. Thus in B. c. 171 he was one of
phylax, who probably lived in the middle of the the hostages given by the king during his confer-
thirteenth century. Several works of his, prin- ence with the Roman deputy Q. Marcius, and
cipally sermons, have been published, both in the subsequently one of the ambassadors sent to P.
original Greek, and in Latin, for which consult Licinius Crassus with proposals for peace : and
Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. x. pp. 199, 242, 247, three years later (B. G 168) he was despatched to
258, vol. xi. p. 455, and Cave, Hist. Lil. vol. ij. Gentius, king of Illyria, to secure the adherence
Diss. p. 15.
(W. M. G. ) of that monarch, at whose court he remained for
PANTALEON, ST. (Ilavranéwv), or PAN- some time, stimulating him to acts of open hos-
TOLEON (lavtonówv), or PANTELEEMON tiity against Rome, and urging him to throw his
(Hartenen uwv), a physician of Nicomedia in Bi- whole power into the contest in favour of Perseus.
thynia, in the third century after Christ, the son of (Polyb. xxvii. 8, xxix. 2, 3; Liv. xlii. 39, xliv.
Eustorgius, a person of wealth and consequence, but 23. )
{E. H. B. )
strongly devoted to paganism. His mother, whose PANTELEEMON. {PANTALEON. )
name was Eubula, was a zealous Christian, and PANTE'LEUS (lavtéreus), the author of
educated him in the Christian faith ; she died, nine verses in the Greek Anthology, the first two
however, while he was yet young, and he was in of which stand in the Vatican MS. as an epigram
danger of relapsing into paganism. After receiving on Callimachus and Cynageirus, the well-known
a good preliminary education, he studied medicine leaders of the Athenians at the battle of Marathon
under a physician named Euphrosynus, and by his (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 404, Anth. Pal. App.
engaging manners and good conduct attracted the No. 58). There can be no doubt that the lines
notice of the Emperor Maximian, 60 that he was are a fragment of an heroic poem on the battle of
intended for the post of one of the royal physicians Marathon, or the Persian war in general ; but we
About this time he became acquainted with an have no indication of the author's age. (See
aged Christian priest, named Hermolaus, by whom Jacobs, Comment. in Anth. Gruec. vol. ii. pt. 3,
he was confirmed in his attachment to the Christian p. 193, vol. iii. pt. 3, p. 929; Vossius, de Hist.
faith, and shortly after baptized. He then endea-Gruec. p. 480, ed. Westermann ; Fabric. Bibl.
voured to convert his father from paganism, in Graec. vol. iv. p. 486. )
[P. S. )
which attempt he at last succeeded. He made PANTHEIA. (ABRADATAS. )
himself an object of dislike and envy to the other PANTHOEDUS (Navtoidos), a dialectic phi-
physicians by the number of cures he effected, and losopher about B. c. 270, who wrote a treatise, reol
was at last denounced to the emperor as a Chris- dumibowy, which was attacked by Chrysippus.
tian. After being in vain tempted to embrace He was the preceptor of Lycon, the peripatetic
paganism, and suffering many tortures (from some philosopher. (Ding. Laërt. v. 68, vii. 193. )
of which he is said to bave been miraculously deli-
[W. M. G. )
vered), he was at last beheaded, probably A. D. 303. PANTHOUS (návloos), one of the elders at
The name of Panteleëmon was given him on Troy, was married to Phrontis, and the father of
account of his praying for his murderers. His Euphorbus, Polydamas, and Hyperenor. (Hom. Il.
memory is celebrated in the Romish church on ii. 146, xiv. 450, xvii. 24, 40, 81. ) Virgil (Aen.
July 27. A very interesting account of his life ii. 319) makes him a son of Othrys, and a priest
and martyrdom is given in the “ Acta Sanctorum" of Apollo, a dignity to which, according to Servius
(Jul. 27. vol. vi. p. 397), taken chiefly from Simeon on this passage, he was raised by Priam ; origi-
Metaphrastes. (See Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctor. nally he was a Delphian, and had been carried to
Professione Medicor. ; C. B. Carpzovius, De Me- Troy by Antenor, on account of his beauty. (Comp.
dicis ab Eccles. pro Sanctis habitis, and the authors Lucian, Gall. 17. )
(L. S. )
there referred to. )
(W. A. G. ) PANTIAS (Navrlas), of Chios, a statuary of
PANTAUCHUS (Távtavyos). 1. A Mace- the school of Sicyon, who is only mentioned as the
donian of Alorus, son of Nicolaus, an officer in the maker of some statues of athletes. He was in-
service of Alexander, was one of those appointed structed in his art by his father, Sostratus, who
to the command of a trireme on the descent of the was the seventh in the succession of disciples from
Indus, B. c. 327. (Arr. Ind. 18. ) Though this is Aristocles of Cydonia : Pantias, therefore, flourished
the only occasion during the wars of that monarch probably about B. C. 420–388. (Paus, vi. 3. § 1,
on which his name is mentioned, yet we are told 9. $ 1, 14. § 3 ; Thiersch, Epochen, pp. 143, 278,
that he had earned a great reputation both for 282; ARISTOCLES. )
[P. S. ]
ability as a commander and for his personal strength PANTOʻLEON. [PANTALEON. )
and prowess. These qualities obtained for him a PANTULEIUS, A. , a sculptor, who lived in
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115
PAPIA.
aera.
Greece in the reign of Hadrian, whose statue he still, as no fragments of it have come down to us,
made for the Milesians. (Böckh, Corp. Inscr. vol. we have no certain information on the subject.
i. No. 339. )
[P. S. ) We do not know what impression the poems of
PANURGUS, the name of the slave of Fannius Pangasis made upon his contemporaries and their
Chaerea, whom the latter entrusted to Roscius, immediate descendants, but it was probably not
the actor, for instruction in his art. [CHAEREAS, great, as he is not mentioned by any of the great
p. 677, b. )
Greek writers. But in later tinies his works were
PANYASIS (Navúaois). * 1. A Greek epic extensively read, and much admired ; the Alex-
poet, lived in the fifth century before the Christian andrine grammarians ranked him with Homer,
His name is also written Nanaoons and Hesiod, Peisander, and Antimachus, as one of the
Navvúaois, but there can be no doubt that Navi five principal epic poets, and some even went so
aris is the correct way. According to Suidas (8. o.
[L. S. ] fall of both the consuls at Mutina in the month of
PANOPION, URBI'NIUS, was proscribed by April in the latter year, together with references to
the triumvirs in B. C. 43, but was preserved by the all the ancient authorities.
extraordinary fidelity of one of his slaves who ex- There is a large number of coins bearing the
changed dresses with his master, dismissed him by name of Pansa, of which we give three specimens
the back-door as the soldiers were entering the below. The first of these has on the obverse the
villa, then placed himself in the bed of Panopion,
and allowed himself to be killed as if he were the
latter. Panopion afterwards testified bis gratitude
by erecting a handsome monument over his slave
(Val. Max. vi. 8. $ 6; Macrob. Saturn. i. 11).
Appian calls the master Appius (B. C. iv. 44); and
Dion Cassius (xlvii. 10) and Seneca (de Benef iji.
25) relate the event, but without mentioning any
PANOPTES. [Argus. ]
Dame.
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head of Apollo, and on the reverse Pallas in a his labours before his death appears from an ex-
chariot drawn by four horses ; it is supposed by pression of Eusebius (H. E. v. 10), TEREUTV
Eckhel more ancient than the time of the consul, yeital
. We do not know the exact date of his
and is therefore referred by him to the father or death, but it cannot have been prior to A. D. 211,
grandfather of the latter. The next two coins as he lived to the time of Caracalla. His name has
belong to the consul. The former bears on the a place in the calendar of the Roman Church, on
obverse the head of Bacchus, and on the reverse the seventh of July. He was succeeded by Cle-
Ceres in a chariot drawn by two dragons: the mens Alexandrinus. This, with some other points,
latter has on the obverse a youthful head, and on has been disputed by Dodwell (ad Irenaeum, p.
the reverse Ceres with a torch in each of her hands 501, &c. ), who makes Pantaenus to be not the pre-
and with a pig by her side. (Eckhel, vol. v. decessor, but the successor of Clemens. He was a
p. 339. )
man of much eloquence, if we may trust the
opinion of Clemens, who calls him a Sicilian bee.
Both Eusebius and Jerome speak of his writings,
the latter mentioning his Commentaries on the
Scriptures, but we have not even a fragment of
them. Cave states that he is numbered by Ana-
stasius of Sinai amongst the commentators who re-
ferred the six days' work of the Creation to Christ
VIS and the Church. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p.
569 ; Cave, Apostolici, p. 127, &c. , Hist. Lit. vol.
i. p. 81, &c. ; Euseb. H. E. v. 10. ) [W. M. G. ]
PANTA'LEON (Tartaléwv), historical. l. A
son of Alyattes, king of Lydia, by an Ionian woman.
His claim to the throne in preference to his brother
Crocsus was put forward by his partisans during
the lifetime of Alyattes, but that monarch decided
in favour of Croesus. (Herod. i. 92. )
2. Son of Omphalion, was king or tyrant of
Pisa in Elis at the period of the 34th Olympiad
COINS OF C. VIBIUS PANSA, Cos, R. C. 43.
(B. C. 644), assembled an army, with which he
made himself master of Olympia, and assumed
PA'NTACLES (Tartakañs), an Athenian, im- by force the sole presidency of the Olympic
mortalized by Aristophanes as a preeminently games on that occasion. The Eleans on this
stupid man, who, preparing to conduct a procession, account would not reckon this as one of the
put on his helmet before he fixed the crest to it. regular Olympiads. (Paus. vi. 21. § 1, 22. & 2. )
He was ridiculed also for his stupidity by Eupolis We learn also from Strabo that Pantaleon assisted
in the Xpvooûv yévos. (Arist. Ran. 1034 ; Schol. the Messenians in the second Messenian war
ad loc. ; comp. Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec
. (Strab. viii. p. 362), which, according to the chro-
vol. i. p. 145, ii. p. 544. )
[E. E. ) nology of Pausanias, followed by Mr. Clinton, niust
PANTAENUS (Távtalvos), the favourite pre- have been as much as thirty years before ; but
ceptor of Clemens Alexandrinus. Of what country C. O. Müller and Mr. Grote regard the intervention
he was originally, is uncertain. Cave endeavours to of Pantaleon as furnishing the best argument for
reconcile the various accounts by conjecturing that the real date of the war in question. (Clinton,
he was of Sicilian parentage, but that he was born in F. H. vol. i. p. 188 ; Müller's Dorians, vol. i.
Alexandria. In this city he was undoubtedly edu- p. 171 ; Grote's Greece, vol. ii. p. 574. )
cated, and embraced the principles of the stoical school 3. A Macedonian of Pydna, an officer in the
of philosophy. We do not find it mentioned who the service of Alexander, who was appointed by him
parties were that instructed him in the truths of governor of Memphis, B. C. 331. (Arr. Anab. iii. 5.
Christianity, but we learn from Photius (Cod. 118) Š 4. )
that he was taught by those who had seen the 4. An Aetolian, one of the chief citizens and
Apostles, though his statement that he had heard political leaders of that people, who was the prin-
some of the Apostles themselves justly appears to cipal author of the peace and alliance concluded by
Cave chronologically impossible. About A. D. 181, the Aetolians with Aratus and the Achaeans, B. c.
he had acquired such eminence that he was ap- | 239. (Plut. Arat. 33. ) He was probably the same
pointed master of the catechetical school in Alex- as the father of Archidamus, mentioned by Poly-
andria, an office which he discharged with great bius (iv. 57).
reputation for nine or ten years. At this time the 5. An Aétolian, probably a grandson of the pre-
learning and piety of Pantaenus suggested him as ceding, is first mentioned as one of the ambassadors
a proper person to conduct a missionary enterprise charged to bear to the Roman general, M. Acilius
to India Of his success there we know nothing. Glabrio, the unqualified submission of the Aeto-
But we have a singular story regarding it told by lians, B. c. 191. (Polyb. xx. 9. ) Again, in B. C.
St. Jerome. It is said that he found in India a 169 he appears as one of the deputies at Thermus
copy of St. Matthew's Gospel, written in Hebrew, before C. Popillius, when he uttered a violent
which had been left by St. Bartholomew, and that harangue against Lyciscus and Thoas. (Id. xxviii.
he brought it back with him to Alexandria. He 4. ) He is also mentioned as present with Eu-
probably resumed his place in the catechetical menes at Delphi, when the life of that monarch
school, which had been filled during his absence by was attempted by the emissaries of Perseus. On
his pupil and friend Clemens. The persecution this occasion he is termed by Liry · Aetoliae
under Severus, A. D. 202, drove both Pantaenus princeps. ” (Liv. xlii. 15. )
and Clemens into Palestine ; but that he resumed 6. A king of Bactria, or rather perhaps of the
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:
Indo-Caucasian provinces south of the Paropa- | high place among the generals of Demetrius Poli-
misus, known only from his coins. From these it orcetes, who in B C. 289 left him with a large force
appears probable that he was the snccessor of Aga- to bold possession of Aetolia against Pyrrhus.
On
thocles, and his reign is referred by Professor Wil the approach of that monarch, Pantauchus hastened
son to about B. c. 120 (Ariana, p. 300); but Lassen to meet him, and give him battle, when a single
would assign it to a much earlier period. (Lassen, combat ensued between the young king and the
Zur Gesch. d. Griechischen Künigen o. Buktrien, veteran officer, in which the former was victorious.
pp. 192, 263. ) The coins of these two kings, Pantauchus was carried off the field severely
Agathocles and Pantaleon, are remarkable as beatro wounded, and his arms was totally routed. Whe-
ing inscriptions both in the Greek and in Sanscrit ther or not he died of his wounds we know note
characters.
(E. H. B. ) but his name is not again mentioned. (Plut.
PANTALEON (Tartaléwv), literary. 1. A Pyrrh. 7, Demetr. 41. )
writer on culinary subjects, mentioned by Pollux 2. Son of Balacrus, one of the chief friends and
(vi. 70), where the old reading, Mavtohéwv, is un counsellors of Perseus, king of Macedonia, by whom
doubtedly inaccurate.
we find him employed on various iinportant confi-
2. A Constantinopolitan deacon and charto- dential occasions. Thus in B. c. 171 he was one of
phylax, who probably lived in the middle of the the hostages given by the king during his confer-
thirteenth century. Several works of his, prin- ence with the Roman deputy Q. Marcius, and
cipally sermons, have been published, both in the subsequently one of the ambassadors sent to P.
original Greek, and in Latin, for which consult Licinius Crassus with proposals for peace : and
Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. x. pp. 199, 242, 247, three years later (B. G 168) he was despatched to
258, vol. xi. p. 455, and Cave, Hist. Lil. vol. ij. Gentius, king of Illyria, to secure the adherence
Diss. p. 15.
(W. M. G. ) of that monarch, at whose court he remained for
PANTALEON, ST. (Ilavranéwv), or PAN- some time, stimulating him to acts of open hos-
TOLEON (lavtonówv), or PANTELEEMON tiity against Rome, and urging him to throw his
(Hartenen uwv), a physician of Nicomedia in Bi- whole power into the contest in favour of Perseus.
thynia, in the third century after Christ, the son of (Polyb. xxvii. 8, xxix. 2, 3; Liv. xlii. 39, xliv.
Eustorgius, a person of wealth and consequence, but 23. )
{E. H. B. )
strongly devoted to paganism. His mother, whose PANTELEEMON. {PANTALEON. )
name was Eubula, was a zealous Christian, and PANTE'LEUS (lavtéreus), the author of
educated him in the Christian faith ; she died, nine verses in the Greek Anthology, the first two
however, while he was yet young, and he was in of which stand in the Vatican MS. as an epigram
danger of relapsing into paganism. After receiving on Callimachus and Cynageirus, the well-known
a good preliminary education, he studied medicine leaders of the Athenians at the battle of Marathon
under a physician named Euphrosynus, and by his (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 404, Anth. Pal. App.
engaging manners and good conduct attracted the No. 58). There can be no doubt that the lines
notice of the Emperor Maximian, 60 that he was are a fragment of an heroic poem on the battle of
intended for the post of one of the royal physicians Marathon, or the Persian war in general ; but we
About this time he became acquainted with an have no indication of the author's age. (See
aged Christian priest, named Hermolaus, by whom Jacobs, Comment. in Anth. Gruec. vol. ii. pt. 3,
he was confirmed in his attachment to the Christian p. 193, vol. iii. pt. 3, p. 929; Vossius, de Hist.
faith, and shortly after baptized. He then endea-Gruec. p. 480, ed. Westermann ; Fabric. Bibl.
voured to convert his father from paganism, in Graec. vol. iv. p. 486. )
[P. S. )
which attempt he at last succeeded. He made PANTHEIA. (ABRADATAS. )
himself an object of dislike and envy to the other PANTHOEDUS (Navtoidos), a dialectic phi-
physicians by the number of cures he effected, and losopher about B. c. 270, who wrote a treatise, reol
was at last denounced to the emperor as a Chris- dumibowy, which was attacked by Chrysippus.
tian. After being in vain tempted to embrace He was the preceptor of Lycon, the peripatetic
paganism, and suffering many tortures (from some philosopher. (Ding. Laërt. v. 68, vii. 193. )
of which he is said to bave been miraculously deli-
[W. M. G. )
vered), he was at last beheaded, probably A. D. 303. PANTHOUS (návloos), one of the elders at
The name of Panteleëmon was given him on Troy, was married to Phrontis, and the father of
account of his praying for his murderers. His Euphorbus, Polydamas, and Hyperenor. (Hom. Il.
memory is celebrated in the Romish church on ii. 146, xiv. 450, xvii. 24, 40, 81. ) Virgil (Aen.
July 27. A very interesting account of his life ii. 319) makes him a son of Othrys, and a priest
and martyrdom is given in the “ Acta Sanctorum" of Apollo, a dignity to which, according to Servius
(Jul. 27. vol. vi. p. 397), taken chiefly from Simeon on this passage, he was raised by Priam ; origi-
Metaphrastes. (See Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctor. nally he was a Delphian, and had been carried to
Professione Medicor. ; C. B. Carpzovius, De Me- Troy by Antenor, on account of his beauty. (Comp.
dicis ab Eccles. pro Sanctis habitis, and the authors Lucian, Gall. 17. )
(L. S. )
there referred to. )
(W. A. G. ) PANTIAS (Navrlas), of Chios, a statuary of
PANTAUCHUS (Távtavyos). 1. A Mace- the school of Sicyon, who is only mentioned as the
donian of Alorus, son of Nicolaus, an officer in the maker of some statues of athletes. He was in-
service of Alexander, was one of those appointed structed in his art by his father, Sostratus, who
to the command of a trireme on the descent of the was the seventh in the succession of disciples from
Indus, B. c. 327. (Arr. Ind. 18. ) Though this is Aristocles of Cydonia : Pantias, therefore, flourished
the only occasion during the wars of that monarch probably about B. C. 420–388. (Paus, vi. 3. § 1,
on which his name is mentioned, yet we are told 9. $ 1, 14. § 3 ; Thiersch, Epochen, pp. 143, 278,
that he had earned a great reputation both for 282; ARISTOCLES. )
[P. S. ]
ability as a commander and for his personal strength PANTOʻLEON. [PANTALEON. )
and prowess. These qualities obtained for him a PANTULEIUS, A. , a sculptor, who lived in
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PAPIA.
aera.
Greece in the reign of Hadrian, whose statue he still, as no fragments of it have come down to us,
made for the Milesians. (Böckh, Corp. Inscr. vol. we have no certain information on the subject.
i. No. 339. )
[P. S. ) We do not know what impression the poems of
PANURGUS, the name of the slave of Fannius Pangasis made upon his contemporaries and their
Chaerea, whom the latter entrusted to Roscius, immediate descendants, but it was probably not
the actor, for instruction in his art. [CHAEREAS, great, as he is not mentioned by any of the great
p. 677, b. )
Greek writers. But in later tinies his works were
PANYASIS (Navúaois). * 1. A Greek epic extensively read, and much admired ; the Alex-
poet, lived in the fifth century before the Christian andrine grammarians ranked him with Homer,
His name is also written Nanaoons and Hesiod, Peisander, and Antimachus, as one of the
Navvúaois, but there can be no doubt that Navi five principal epic poets, and some even went so
aris is the correct way. According to Suidas (8. o.
