401),
Parysatis
did not PA'SIAS, an eminent Greek painter, brother of
hesitate to display her grief for the death of her the modeller Aegineta, and disciple of Erigonus,
favourite son, by bestowing funeral honours on his who had been originally colour-grinder to the
mutilated remains, as well as by acts of kindness painter Nealces (Plin.
hesitate to display her grief for the death of her the modeller Aegineta, and disciple of Erigonus,
favourite son, by bestowing funeral honours on his who had been originally colour-grinder to the
mutilated remains, as well as by acts of kindness painter Nealces (Plin.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
24, v.
ii.
& 5, viii, 41, 5, x.
34, in fin.
) Par-
wick, 1843. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol iv. p. 305, thenos also occurs as the proper name of the
&c. ; Voss. De Hist. Graec. p. 208, &c. ed Wester- daughter of Apollo and Chrysothemis, who after
mann ; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 518, &c. ; Lebeau, ber premature death was placed by her father
Sur les Auteurs dont Parthenius a tiré ses Nurrutions, among the stars. (lygin. Poct. Astr. 25. in
in Mém. de l'Acad. d. Inscrip. vol. xxxiv. p. 63, fin. )
(LS. )
&c. ; Eckstein, in Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopädie, PARYSATIS (Παρύσατις or Παρυσάτις, see
art. Parthenius. )
Baehr ad Ctes. p. 186. ) According to Strabo
2. Of Chios, the son of Thestor, surnamed | (xri. p. 785), the Persian form of the name was
Chaos, was said to be a descendant of Homer, and Pharziris.
wrote a poem on his father, Thestor (Suid. ). 1. Daughter of Artaxerxes I. Longimanus, king
Suidas also ascribes to him the composition of the of Persia, was given by her father in marriage to
Metamorphoses ; but we have shown above that her own brother Dareius, surnamed Ochus, who in
this fentence is probably misplaced in Suidas. B. C. 424 succeeded Xerxes II. on the throne of
3. The GRAMMARIAN, was a pupil of the Alex. Persia. (Ctes. Pers. 44, ed. Baehr. ) The feeble
## p. 131 (#147) ############################################
PARYSATIS.
131
PARYSATIS.
PASICRATES.
ndrine grammarian, Dionysius
, who lived in the
st century before Christ (Suidas
, s. 6. Altfel,
his Parthenius is mentioned by Athenazes vig
otes a work of bis, entitled Tepi Tev tage eigen
στορικούς Λέξεων ζητουμένων (Athen. Σ. β. 47,
p. 501, a. 2F. p. 680, d. e), and also be Eesti
Eus (at ll
. xxii. p. 1412, ad Od. IT. 2. 367)
4. The Procaean, frequently quoted tre fazer
ss Byzantinus (ε. τη. Γότθοι, Δεκέτιος, Μερσι
the Greek Anthology there is an enerza di
cius (Anal, vol. ii. p. 297), addressed eit les
τον Φωκαέα τον είς "Ομηρον παροινήστε
nck understands this to be the Partheries
taken in the Mithridatic war (Na 1)
, ?
bs supposes him to be the same as the disciple
Fonysius (No. 3); but neither of these peste
e correct, as Clinton has obserred (F. ll. rad
549), since it appears from the anted wity al
anus Brz. (s. v. AEKÉrtwu) that the Ph. com
-nius lived after Maguentius, who sler (*
7 A. D. 350,
ETHEVOPAEUS (Tiapbeyopa. os)
, et
en heroes that undertook the expectia
Thebes. He is sometimes called a sad
Meilanion and Atalante (-Apolod. S.
3, &c. ; Paus. iii. 12. $ 7; Eurip
. Sorel
IF, ad Aen, vi. 480), sometimes of W?
Atalante (Ilsgin. Feb. 70, 79), 2.
of Talaus and Losiniache (Apolodi.
18. ii. 20. $ 4, ir. 18. & 4; Sehol the
. His son, by the nymph Craene
,
ed against Thebes as one of the Epoca
Promachus, Stratolaus, Thesires
(Apollod. i. 9. § 13, ii. 7. $? ; Ex
m. p. 489; Hrgin. Fab. 71; Pass. i
'arthenopaeas was killed at Thebes big
Amphidicus or Periclymenus (Apol
8; Paus. ir 18, in fin. ;
>
(LS)
ΝΟΡΕ (Παρθενόπη). 1. A dassic
s, and by Heracles the borbe
ollod. i. 7. $ 8. )
hter of Ancaeus and Satriz, became
: mother of Lycomedes. (Paza si
he Seirens (Schol. ad Hor Ol. si
Mir. Ausc. 103. ) At Naples ber
wn, and a torch race was held EFETT
character of Dareius threw the chief power into The abstract of Ctesias himself, preserved to us by
the hands of Parysatis ; whose administration was Photius, records the same events more briefly.
little else than a series of murders. It was at her 2. The youngest daughter of Ochus (Arta-
express instigation that Dareius put to death his xerxes III. ), king of Persia, whom according to
two brothers Sogdianus and Arsites, as well as Ar-Arrian (anal, vii. 4. 5) Alexander the Great
tuphius and Artoxares, the chief eunuch. All the married at Susa, B. c. 325, at the same time with
family of Stateira, who was married to her son Barsinë or Stateira, the daughter of Dareius.
Artaxerxes, were in like manner sacrificed to her Arrian cites Aristobulus as his authority ; but
jealousy, and she was with difficulty induced to this second marriage is not mentioned by any
spare the life of Stateira herself. (Id. ib. 48–56. ) other author.
(E. H. B. ]
She had been the mother of no less than thirteen PASCHASINUS, together with Lucentius,
children, of whom four only grew up to manhood. bishop of Asculum, and Bonifacius, a presbyter,
The eldest of these, Arsaces, who afterwards as- was despatched by Leo I. to represent hiin in the
sumed the name of Artaxerxes, was born before Council of Chalcedon, held A. D. 451. Paschasinus,
Dareius had obtained the sovereign power, and on of whose previous history and position in life we
this pretext Parysatis sought to set aside his claims know nothing, seems to have held the chief place
to the throne in favour of her second son Cyrus. among the three legates since he subscribed the
Failing in this attempt she nevertheless interposed acts of the council in the name of the pope before
after the death of Dareius B. C. 405, to prevent the two others.
Artaxerxes from putting Cyrus to death ; and An epistle of Paschasinus, De Quaestione Paschali,
prevailed with the king to allow him to return to is still extant, addressed to Leo in reply to some
his satrapy in Asia Minor. (Ctes. Pers. 57 ; inquiries from the pontiff with regard to the calcu-
Plut. Art. 1–3; Xen. Anab. i. 1. $$ 1-3. ) lations for determining the festival of Easter. It
During the absence of Cyrus, she continued to will be found under its best form in the editions of
favour his projects by her influence with Ar- the works of Leo, published by Quesnel and by
taxerxes, whom she prevented from listening to the brothers Ballerini. (Leo. ] (Schönemann,
those who would have warned him of the designs Biblioth. Patrum Lat. vol. ij. Š 49; Bähr, Ges-
of his brotber ; on which account she was loudly chichte der Röm. Litterat. Suppl. Band. 2te Abtheil.
blamed by the opposite party at court as the real $ 166. )
(W. R. )
author of the war that ensued. Even after the PAÍSEAS. (ABANTIDAS. ]
battle of Cunaxa (B. C.
401), Parysatis did not PA'SIAS, an eminent Greek painter, brother of
hesitate to display her grief for the death of her the modeller Aegineta, and disciple of Erigonus,
favourite son, by bestowing funeral honours on his who had been originally colour-grinder to the
mutilated remains, as well as by acts of kindness painter Nealces (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 11. s. 40. 841).
to Clearchus, the leader of his Greek mercenaries, He belonged to the Sicyonian school, and flourished
whose life she in vain attempted to save. It was about B. c. 220. (AEGINETA ; ERIGONUS ; NE-
not long before the weakness and vanity of Arta- alces. )
[P. S. ]
xerxes, who was ambitious of being thought to PASI'CRATES (Ilaoikpámns), prince of Soli in
have slain his brother with his own hand, enabled Cyprus, was one of those who submitted to Alex-
Parysatis to avenge herself upon all the real au- ander, and repaired in person to meet the conqueror
thors of the death of Cyrus, every one of whom at Tyre, in B. C. 331, on which occasion he took a
successively fell into her power, and were put to prominent part in the festivities and theatrical en-
death by the most cruel tortures. Meanwhile, the tertainments then celebrated on a scale of unparal-
dissensions between her and Stateira, the wife of leled magnificence. (Plut. Aler. 29. ) His son
Artaxerxes, had been continually increasing, until | Nicocles accompanied the king throughout his cam-
at length Parysatis found an opportunity to elude paigns in Asia. (Arr. Ind. 18. ) He was succeeded
the rigilance of her rival, and effect her de by Eunostus, probably before B. C. 315. (See
struction by poison. (Ctes. 59–62; Plut. Art. 4, Athen. xiii. p. 576, e. ; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. i.
6, 14-17, 19. )
p. 339, n. )
(E. H. B. )
The feeble and indolent Artaxerxes, though PASI'CRATES (Taoikpátos), literary. 1. Of
he was apparently fully convinced of his mother's Rhodes, who wrote a lost Commentary on the Cate-
guilt, was content to banish her to Babylon ;gories of Aristotle. For the opinion that he wrote
and it was not long before he entirely forgot the second book of the Metaphysics of Aristotle, see
the past, and recalled her to his court, where Eudemus. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 211,
she soon recovered all her former influence. Of 501. )
this she boon availed herself to turn his sus- 2. ' A servant of St. George of Cappadocia, to
picions against Tissaphernes, whom she had long whom is attributed an account of his master's life,
hated as having been the first to discover the edited in Greek by Lipomann (in the Acta Sanc-
designs of Cyrus to his brother, and who was now torum, vol iii. ), and in Latin by Linus (ubi supra,
put to death by Artaxerxes at her instigation, B. C. p. 117) and by Surius (vol. ii. ad 23 April).
396. (Plut. Art. 19—23 ; Diod. xiv. 80 ; Polyaen. This life, as well as the others of St. George, are
vii. 16. 9 1. ) This appears to have been the last universally admitted to be unworthy of credit
.
in the long catalogue of the crimes of Parysatis ; at (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x p. 229 , Vossius, de
least it is the last mention that we find of her Hist. Graec. p. 294, ed. Westermann. ) (GEORGIUS,
name. The period of her death is wholly un- No. 7, p. 218. )
[W. M. G. )
known. The history of her intrigues and cruel- PASI'CRATES (Taoikpátas), a Greek phy.
ties, the outline of which is above given, is very sician who appears to have given much attention to
fully related by Plutarch (Artaxerxes), who has the preparation of surgical apparatus, as his name
followed the authority of Ctesias, a resident at is several times mentioned by Oribasius in his
the court of Persia throughout the period in book on that subject (De Machin. cc. 26, 29, 31,
question, and bears every mark of authenticity. I pp. 182, 183, 190, 192). He was the father of
K 2
Aescas
snour. (Simb. 5. p. 246; Tzetz. B.
e of Oceanus, by whom she became the
ropa and Thrace. (Tzetz, a1 Lx. 841;
ad Acschyl. Pers. 183. ) [LS]
ENOS (Napkévos), i e. the virus
Athena at Athens, where the famous
henon was dedicated to her. (Paasi
5, viii. 41. & 5, 2. 31, in fn) Pa
occurs as the proper 2. 279 of the
Apollo and Chrisortens, oto e
e death was placed of her de
stars. (Ilygin. Poct. Ástr. 25,-
ATIS (Παρύσατις Or Παρυσέτα, και
Ctes. p. 186. ) According to Szlo
5), the Persian form of the name va
1
!
ghter of Artaxerxes I. Longimaras
, Ess
was given by her father in marriage as
brother Dareius, surnamed Ochus, wi
succeeded Xerxes II. on the threze of
(Ctes. Pers. 44, ed. Baehr. ) The feeling
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132
PASIMELUS.
PASION.
Aristion (ibid. cc. 24, 26, pp. 180, 183), and as I wall's Greece, vol. v. p. 128, that Pasimelus was a
he lived probably after Nymphodorus (ibid. p. 180) Spartan officer commanding at Corinth. [E. E. )
and before Heliodorus (p: 160), he may be conjec- PASINI'CUS (Naoivikos), a physician in the
tured to have lived in the second or first century fourth century after Christ to whom one of St.
B. C. He is probably the physician quoted by As Basil's letters is addressed. (Ep. 324, vol. iii.
clepiades Pharmacion ap. Gal' De Compos. Medicam. p. 449, ed. Bened. )
(W. A. G. )
sec. Locos, viii. 8, vol. xiii. p. 213. if, with Mead PA'SION (Maoiwv). 1. A Megarian, was one
(De Numis quibusdam a Smyrnacis in Honorem of those who were employed by Cyrus the younger
Medicorum percusis, p. 51) and Fabricius (Bibl. in the siege of Miletus, which had continued to
Gracc. vol. xiii. p. 357, ed. vet. ), we suppose that adhere to Tissaphernes ; and, when Cyrus com-
certain coins with the name of Pasicrates upon menced his expedition against his brother, in B. C.
them, were struck in honour of this plıysician, we 401, Pasion joined him at Sardis with 700 men.
may add to the above particulars, that he was a At Tarsus a number of his soldiers and of those of
native of Smyrna, and a follower of Emsistratus ; Xenias, the Arcadian, left their standards for that
that his grandfather's name was Pasicrates, and his of Clearchus, on the declaration of the latter,
father's Capito ; and that he was brother of Meno- framed to induce the Greeks not to abandon the en-
dorus, and father of Metrodorus. (W. A. G. ) terprise, that he would stand by them and share their
PA'SIDAS or PASIADAS (Taoidas or 11a- fortunes in spite of the obligations he was under to
oiádas), an Achaean, was one of the deputies sent Cyrus. The prince afterwards permitted Clearchus
by the Achaeans to Ptolemy Philometor, to congra- to retain the troops in question, and it was from
tulate him on his attaining to manhood, B. c. 170. offence at this, as usually supposed, that Pasion
During their stay in Egypt, they interposed their and Xenias deserted the army at the Phoenician
good offices to prevent the further advance of An- sea-port of Myriandrus, and sailed away for Greece
tiochus Epiphanes, who had invaded the country, with the most valuable of their effects. Cyrus dis-
and even threatened Alexandria itself, but without played a politic forbearance on the occasion, and
effect. (Polyb. xxviii. 10, 16. ) [E. H. B. ) excited the Greeks to greater alacrity in his cause,
PASIME’LUS (llaolunaos), a Corinthian, of by declining to pursue the fugitives, or to detain
the oligarchical party. When, in B. c.
wick, 1843. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol iv. p. 305, thenos also occurs as the proper name of the
&c. ; Voss. De Hist. Graec. p. 208, &c. ed Wester- daughter of Apollo and Chrysothemis, who after
mann ; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 518, &c. ; Lebeau, ber premature death was placed by her father
Sur les Auteurs dont Parthenius a tiré ses Nurrutions, among the stars. (lygin. Poct. Astr. 25. in
in Mém. de l'Acad. d. Inscrip. vol. xxxiv. p. 63, fin. )
(LS. )
&c. ; Eckstein, in Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopädie, PARYSATIS (Παρύσατις or Παρυσάτις, see
art. Parthenius. )
Baehr ad Ctes. p. 186. ) According to Strabo
2. Of Chios, the son of Thestor, surnamed | (xri. p. 785), the Persian form of the name was
Chaos, was said to be a descendant of Homer, and Pharziris.
wrote a poem on his father, Thestor (Suid. ). 1. Daughter of Artaxerxes I. Longimanus, king
Suidas also ascribes to him the composition of the of Persia, was given by her father in marriage to
Metamorphoses ; but we have shown above that her own brother Dareius, surnamed Ochus, who in
this fentence is probably misplaced in Suidas. B. C. 424 succeeded Xerxes II. on the throne of
3. The GRAMMARIAN, was a pupil of the Alex. Persia. (Ctes. Pers. 44, ed. Baehr. ) The feeble
## p. 131 (#147) ############################################
PARYSATIS.
131
PARYSATIS.
PASICRATES.
ndrine grammarian, Dionysius
, who lived in the
st century before Christ (Suidas
, s. 6. Altfel,
his Parthenius is mentioned by Athenazes vig
otes a work of bis, entitled Tepi Tev tage eigen
στορικούς Λέξεων ζητουμένων (Athen. Σ. β. 47,
p. 501, a. 2F. p. 680, d. e), and also be Eesti
Eus (at ll
. xxii. p. 1412, ad Od. IT. 2. 367)
4. The Procaean, frequently quoted tre fazer
ss Byzantinus (ε. τη. Γότθοι, Δεκέτιος, Μερσι
the Greek Anthology there is an enerza di
cius (Anal, vol. ii. p. 297), addressed eit les
τον Φωκαέα τον είς "Ομηρον παροινήστε
nck understands this to be the Partheries
taken in the Mithridatic war (Na 1)
, ?
bs supposes him to be the same as the disciple
Fonysius (No. 3); but neither of these peste
e correct, as Clinton has obserred (F. ll. rad
549), since it appears from the anted wity al
anus Brz. (s. v. AEKÉrtwu) that the Ph. com
-nius lived after Maguentius, who sler (*
7 A. D. 350,
ETHEVOPAEUS (Tiapbeyopa. os)
, et
en heroes that undertook the expectia
Thebes. He is sometimes called a sad
Meilanion and Atalante (-Apolod. S.
3, &c. ; Paus. iii. 12. $ 7; Eurip
. Sorel
IF, ad Aen, vi. 480), sometimes of W?
Atalante (Ilsgin. Feb. 70, 79), 2.
of Talaus and Losiniache (Apolodi.
18. ii. 20. $ 4, ir. 18. & 4; Sehol the
. His son, by the nymph Craene
,
ed against Thebes as one of the Epoca
Promachus, Stratolaus, Thesires
(Apollod. i. 9. § 13, ii. 7. $? ; Ex
m. p. 489; Hrgin. Fab. 71; Pass. i
'arthenopaeas was killed at Thebes big
Amphidicus or Periclymenus (Apol
8; Paus. ir 18, in fin. ;
>
(LS)
ΝΟΡΕ (Παρθενόπη). 1. A dassic
s, and by Heracles the borbe
ollod. i. 7. $ 8. )
hter of Ancaeus and Satriz, became
: mother of Lycomedes. (Paza si
he Seirens (Schol. ad Hor Ol. si
Mir. Ausc. 103. ) At Naples ber
wn, and a torch race was held EFETT
character of Dareius threw the chief power into The abstract of Ctesias himself, preserved to us by
the hands of Parysatis ; whose administration was Photius, records the same events more briefly.
little else than a series of murders. It was at her 2. The youngest daughter of Ochus (Arta-
express instigation that Dareius put to death his xerxes III. ), king of Persia, whom according to
two brothers Sogdianus and Arsites, as well as Ar-Arrian (anal, vii. 4. 5) Alexander the Great
tuphius and Artoxares, the chief eunuch. All the married at Susa, B. c. 325, at the same time with
family of Stateira, who was married to her son Barsinë or Stateira, the daughter of Dareius.
Artaxerxes, were in like manner sacrificed to her Arrian cites Aristobulus as his authority ; but
jealousy, and she was with difficulty induced to this second marriage is not mentioned by any
spare the life of Stateira herself. (Id. ib. 48–56. ) other author.
(E. H. B. ]
She had been the mother of no less than thirteen PASCHASINUS, together with Lucentius,
children, of whom four only grew up to manhood. bishop of Asculum, and Bonifacius, a presbyter,
The eldest of these, Arsaces, who afterwards as- was despatched by Leo I. to represent hiin in the
sumed the name of Artaxerxes, was born before Council of Chalcedon, held A. D. 451. Paschasinus,
Dareius had obtained the sovereign power, and on of whose previous history and position in life we
this pretext Parysatis sought to set aside his claims know nothing, seems to have held the chief place
to the throne in favour of her second son Cyrus. among the three legates since he subscribed the
Failing in this attempt she nevertheless interposed acts of the council in the name of the pope before
after the death of Dareius B. C. 405, to prevent the two others.
Artaxerxes from putting Cyrus to death ; and An epistle of Paschasinus, De Quaestione Paschali,
prevailed with the king to allow him to return to is still extant, addressed to Leo in reply to some
his satrapy in Asia Minor. (Ctes. Pers. 57 ; inquiries from the pontiff with regard to the calcu-
Plut. Art. 1–3; Xen. Anab. i. 1. $$ 1-3. ) lations for determining the festival of Easter. It
During the absence of Cyrus, she continued to will be found under its best form in the editions of
favour his projects by her influence with Ar- the works of Leo, published by Quesnel and by
taxerxes, whom she prevented from listening to the brothers Ballerini. (Leo. ] (Schönemann,
those who would have warned him of the designs Biblioth. Patrum Lat. vol. ij. Š 49; Bähr, Ges-
of his brotber ; on which account she was loudly chichte der Röm. Litterat. Suppl. Band. 2te Abtheil.
blamed by the opposite party at court as the real $ 166. )
(W. R. )
author of the war that ensued. Even after the PAÍSEAS. (ABANTIDAS. ]
battle of Cunaxa (B. C.
401), Parysatis did not PA'SIAS, an eminent Greek painter, brother of
hesitate to display her grief for the death of her the modeller Aegineta, and disciple of Erigonus,
favourite son, by bestowing funeral honours on his who had been originally colour-grinder to the
mutilated remains, as well as by acts of kindness painter Nealces (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 11. s. 40. 841).
to Clearchus, the leader of his Greek mercenaries, He belonged to the Sicyonian school, and flourished
whose life she in vain attempted to save. It was about B. c. 220. (AEGINETA ; ERIGONUS ; NE-
not long before the weakness and vanity of Arta- alces. )
[P. S. ]
xerxes, who was ambitious of being thought to PASI'CRATES (Ilaoikpámns), prince of Soli in
have slain his brother with his own hand, enabled Cyprus, was one of those who submitted to Alex-
Parysatis to avenge herself upon all the real au- ander, and repaired in person to meet the conqueror
thors of the death of Cyrus, every one of whom at Tyre, in B. C. 331, on which occasion he took a
successively fell into her power, and were put to prominent part in the festivities and theatrical en-
death by the most cruel tortures. Meanwhile, the tertainments then celebrated on a scale of unparal-
dissensions between her and Stateira, the wife of leled magnificence. (Plut. Aler. 29. ) His son
Artaxerxes, had been continually increasing, until | Nicocles accompanied the king throughout his cam-
at length Parysatis found an opportunity to elude paigns in Asia. (Arr. Ind. 18. ) He was succeeded
the rigilance of her rival, and effect her de by Eunostus, probably before B. C. 315. (See
struction by poison. (Ctes. 59–62; Plut. Art. 4, Athen. xiii. p. 576, e. ; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. i.
6, 14-17, 19. )
p. 339, n. )
(E. H. B. )
The feeble and indolent Artaxerxes, though PASI'CRATES (Taoikpátos), literary. 1. Of
he was apparently fully convinced of his mother's Rhodes, who wrote a lost Commentary on the Cate-
guilt, was content to banish her to Babylon ;gories of Aristotle. For the opinion that he wrote
and it was not long before he entirely forgot the second book of the Metaphysics of Aristotle, see
the past, and recalled her to his court, where Eudemus. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 211,
she soon recovered all her former influence. Of 501. )
this she boon availed herself to turn his sus- 2. ' A servant of St. George of Cappadocia, to
picions against Tissaphernes, whom she had long whom is attributed an account of his master's life,
hated as having been the first to discover the edited in Greek by Lipomann (in the Acta Sanc-
designs of Cyrus to his brother, and who was now torum, vol iii. ), and in Latin by Linus (ubi supra,
put to death by Artaxerxes at her instigation, B. C. p. 117) and by Surius (vol. ii. ad 23 April).
396. (Plut. Art. 19—23 ; Diod. xiv. 80 ; Polyaen. This life, as well as the others of St. George, are
vii. 16. 9 1. ) This appears to have been the last universally admitted to be unworthy of credit
.
in the long catalogue of the crimes of Parysatis ; at (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x p. 229 , Vossius, de
least it is the last mention that we find of her Hist. Graec. p. 294, ed. Westermann. ) (GEORGIUS,
name. The period of her death is wholly un- No. 7, p. 218. )
[W. M. G. )
known. The history of her intrigues and cruel- PASI'CRATES (Taoikpátas), a Greek phy.
ties, the outline of which is above given, is very sician who appears to have given much attention to
fully related by Plutarch (Artaxerxes), who has the preparation of surgical apparatus, as his name
followed the authority of Ctesias, a resident at is several times mentioned by Oribasius in his
the court of Persia throughout the period in book on that subject (De Machin. cc. 26, 29, 31,
question, and bears every mark of authenticity. I pp. 182, 183, 190, 192). He was the father of
K 2
Aescas
snour. (Simb. 5. p. 246; Tzetz. B.
e of Oceanus, by whom she became the
ropa and Thrace. (Tzetz, a1 Lx. 841;
ad Acschyl. Pers. 183. ) [LS]
ENOS (Napkévos), i e. the virus
Athena at Athens, where the famous
henon was dedicated to her. (Paasi
5, viii. 41. & 5, 2. 31, in fn) Pa
occurs as the proper 2. 279 of the
Apollo and Chrisortens, oto e
e death was placed of her de
stars. (Ilygin. Poct. Ástr. 25,-
ATIS (Παρύσατις Or Παρυσέτα, και
Ctes. p. 186. ) According to Szlo
5), the Persian form of the name va
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ghter of Artaxerxes I. Longimaras
, Ess
was given by her father in marriage as
brother Dareius, surnamed Ochus, wi
succeeded Xerxes II. on the threze of
(Ctes. Pers. 44, ed. Baehr. ) The feeling
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PASIMELUS.
PASION.
Aristion (ibid. cc. 24, 26, pp. 180, 183), and as I wall's Greece, vol. v. p. 128, that Pasimelus was a
he lived probably after Nymphodorus (ibid. p. 180) Spartan officer commanding at Corinth. [E. E. )
and before Heliodorus (p: 160), he may be conjec- PASINI'CUS (Naoivikos), a physician in the
tured to have lived in the second or first century fourth century after Christ to whom one of St.
B. C. He is probably the physician quoted by As Basil's letters is addressed. (Ep. 324, vol. iii.
clepiades Pharmacion ap. Gal' De Compos. Medicam. p. 449, ed. Bened. )
(W. A. G. )
sec. Locos, viii. 8, vol. xiii. p. 213. if, with Mead PA'SION (Maoiwv). 1. A Megarian, was one
(De Numis quibusdam a Smyrnacis in Honorem of those who were employed by Cyrus the younger
Medicorum percusis, p. 51) and Fabricius (Bibl. in the siege of Miletus, which had continued to
Gracc. vol. xiii. p. 357, ed. vet. ), we suppose that adhere to Tissaphernes ; and, when Cyrus com-
certain coins with the name of Pasicrates upon menced his expedition against his brother, in B. C.
them, were struck in honour of this plıysician, we 401, Pasion joined him at Sardis with 700 men.
may add to the above particulars, that he was a At Tarsus a number of his soldiers and of those of
native of Smyrna, and a follower of Emsistratus ; Xenias, the Arcadian, left their standards for that
that his grandfather's name was Pasicrates, and his of Clearchus, on the declaration of the latter,
father's Capito ; and that he was brother of Meno- framed to induce the Greeks not to abandon the en-
dorus, and father of Metrodorus. (W. A. G. ) terprise, that he would stand by them and share their
PA'SIDAS or PASIADAS (Taoidas or 11a- fortunes in spite of the obligations he was under to
oiádas), an Achaean, was one of the deputies sent Cyrus. The prince afterwards permitted Clearchus
by the Achaeans to Ptolemy Philometor, to congra- to retain the troops in question, and it was from
tulate him on his attaining to manhood, B. c. 170. offence at this, as usually supposed, that Pasion
During their stay in Egypt, they interposed their and Xenias deserted the army at the Phoenician
good offices to prevent the further advance of An- sea-port of Myriandrus, and sailed away for Greece
tiochus Epiphanes, who had invaded the country, with the most valuable of their effects. Cyrus dis-
and even threatened Alexandria itself, but without played a politic forbearance on the occasion, and
effect. (Polyb. xxviii. 10, 16. ) [E. H. B. ) excited the Greeks to greater alacrity in his cause,
PASIME’LUS (llaolunaos), a Corinthian, of by declining to pursue the fugitives, or to detain
the oligarchical party. When, in B. c.
