)
Respecting
the voyage
received the name of Alexander, i.
received the name of Alexander, i.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
The volume included two other treatises or
greatest care, but they both appear to have been abstracts on the dialects by the anonymous writers
of inferior capacity, which was anything but com- known as Grammaticus Leidensis and Grammaticus
pensated by worth of character, though Paralus Meermannianus. An edition by G. H. Schaeffer,
seems to have been a somewhat more hopeful containing the treatises published by Koenius, and
youth than his brother. Both of them got the one or two additional, among which was the tract
nickname of Bλιττομάμμας. Both Xanthippus of Manuel Moschopulus, De Vocum Passionibus
and Paralus fell victims to the plague B. c. 429. [MoscHOPULUS), was subsequently published, 8vo.
(Plut. Pericl. 24, 36, de Consolat. p. 118, e. ; Plat. Leipzig, 1811, with copious notes and observations,
Alcib. i. p. 118, e. , with the scholiast on the passage, by Koenius, Bastius, Boissonade, and Schaeffer ;
Protag. p. 319, e. ; Athen. xi. p. 505,506. ) and a Commentatio Palaeographica, by Bastius.
2. A friend of Dion of Syracuse (Dion), who Several works of Pardus are extant in MSS. ; they
was governor of Minoa under the Carthaginians at are on Grammar ; the most important are appa-
the time when Dion landed in Sicily and gained rently that Περί συντάξεως λόγου ήτοι περί του μη
possession of Syracuse. See Vol. 1. p. 1028. coloričelv kai nepi Baplapio uoŮ, K. 7. 1. , De Con-
(Diod. xvi. 9. )
(C. P. M. ] structione Orationis, vel de Soloecismo et Barbarismo,
PARCAE. (Moira. )
&c. ; that Περί τρόπων ποιητικών, De Tropis Poe-
PARDUS, GREGORIUS or GEORGIUS ties; and especially that entitled 'Egryto eis eis tois
(Γρηγόριος 8. Γεώργιος Πάρδος), Archbishop of ή κανόνας των δεσποτικών εορτών, κ. τ. λ. , Erposi-
Corinth, on which account he is called in some tiones in Canones s. Hymnos Dominicos Festorum-
MSS. GEORGIUS (or GREGORIUS) CORINTHUS que totius Anni, et in Trivia Magnae Hebdomadis
(Kópavos), and, by an error of the copyist, Cori ac Festorum Deiparae, a grammatical exposition of
THUS (Kopitov, in Gen. ) and CORUTUS (Kopútov, the hymns of Cosmas and Damascenus (Cosmas OP
in Gen. ), or CORYTUS, a Greek writer on gram- JERUSALEM ; DAMASCENUS, Joannes), used in
mar of uncertain date. The only clue that we the Greek Church ; a work which has been, by
have to the period in which he lived is a passage the oversight of Possevino, Sixtus of Sena, and
in an unpublished work of his, De Constructione others, represented as a collection of Homiliae et
Orationis, in which he describes Georgius Pisida Sermones. (Allatius de Georgiis, p. 416, ed. Paris,
(GEORGIUS, No. 44), Nicolaus Callicles, and Theo- et apud Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xii. p. 122, &c. i
dorus Prodmmus as “ more recent writers of lambic Koenius, Praef. in Gregor. Corinth. ; Fabric. Bibl.
verse. ". Nicolaus and Theodorus belong to the Graec. vol vi. pp. 195, &c. 320, 34), vol. ir. p.
reign of Alexius I. Comnenus (A. D. 1081-1118), 742. )
(J. C. M. )
and therefore Pardus must belong to a still later PARE'GOROS (Napíropos), i. e. , “the ad-
## p. 122 (#138) ############################################
122
PARIS.
PARIS
2
dressing," is the name of a goddess whose statue, a golden apple among the guests, with the in-
along with that of Peitho, stood in the temple of scription, “ to the fairest. " (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 93 ;
Aphrodite at Megara. (Paus. i. 43. & 6. ) [L. S. ) Serv. ad Aen. i. 27. ) Here, Aphrodite and
PAREIA (Πάρεια), 8 surname of Athena, Athena began to dispute as to which of them the
under which she had a statue in Laconia, perhaps apple should belong. Zeus ordered Hermes to
80 called only from its being made of Parian take the goddesses to mount Gargarus, a portion
marble. (Paus. iii. 20. & 8. ) Pareia is also the of Ida, to the beautiful shepherd Paris, who was
name of a nymph by whom Minos became the there tending his flocks, and who was to decide
father of Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Plii- the dispute. (Eurip. Iphig. Aul. 1302, 1298 ;
lojaus. (Apollod. iii. 1. & 2. )
(L. S. ) Paus. v. 19. § 1; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 986. )
PARIS (Tlápis), also called Alexander, was Hera promised him the sovereignty of Asia and
the second son of Priam and Hecabe. Previous great riches, Athena great glory and renown in
to his birth Hecabe dreamed that she had given war, and Aphrodite the fairest of women, Heien,
birth to a firebrand, the flames of which spread in marriage. Hereupon Paris declared Aphrodite
over the whole city. This dream was interpreted to be the fairest and deserving of the golden
to her by Aesacus, or according to others by Cas- apple. This judgment called forth in Hera and
sandra (Eurip. Androm. 298), by Apollo (Cic. De Athena fierce hatred of Troy. (Hom. 1. xxiv.
Dirin. i. 21), or by a Sibyl (Paus. x. 12. & 1), and 25, 29; Schol. ad Eurip. Hecub. 637, Troad.
was said to indicate that Hecabe should give birth 925, &c. , Helen. 23, &c. , Androm. 284 ; Hygin.
to a son, who should bring about the ruin of his Fab. 92 ; Lucian, Dial. Deor. 20. ) Under the
native city, and she was accordingly advised to protection of Aphrodite, Paris now carried off
expose the child. Some state that the soothsayers Helen, the wife of Menelaus, from Sparta. (Hom.
urged Hecabe to kill the child, but as she was n. iii. 46, &c. ; Apollod. ii. 12. & 6. ) The ac-
unable to do so, Priam exposed him. (Schol. ad counts of this rape are not the same in all writers,
Eurip. Androm. 294, Iphig. Aul. 1285. ) The for according to some Helen followed her seducer
boy accordingly was entrusted to a shepherd, willingly and without resistance, owing to the
Agelaus, who was to expose him on Mount influence of Aphrodite (Hom. N. iii. 174), while
Ida. But after the lapse of five days, the Menelaus was absent in Crete (Eurip. Troad.
shepherd, on returning to mount Ida, found the 939); some say that the goddess deceived Helen,
child still alive, and fed by a she-bear. He by giving to Paris the appearance of Menelaus
accordingly took back the boy, and brought (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1946); according to others
him up along with his own child, and called him Helen was carried off by Paris by force, either
Paris. (Eurip. Troad. 921. ) When Paris had during a festival or during the chase. (Lycoph.
grown up, he distinguished' himself as a valiant 106 , Serv. ad Aen. i. 526 ; Dict. Cret. i. 3 ;
defender of the flocks and shepherds, and hence Ptolem. Hephaest. 4.
) Respecting the voyage
received the name of Alexander, i. e. the defender of Paris to Greece, there likewise are different
of men. He now also succeeded in discovering accounts. Once, it is said, Sparta was visited
his real origin, and found out his parents. (A pollod. by a famine, and the oracle declared that it should
iii. 12. § 5. ) This happened in the following not cease, unless the sons of Prometheus, Lycus
manner :-“Priam, who was going to celebrate a and Chimaereus, who were buried at Troy, were
funeral solemnity for Paris, whom he believed to propitiated. Menelaus accordingly went to Troy,
be dead, ordered a bull to be fetched from the and Paris afterwards accompanied him from Troy
herd, which was to be given as a prize to the to Delphi. (Lycoph. 132 ; Eustath. ad Hom.
victor in the games. The king's servants took p. 521. ) Others say that Paris involuntarily
the favourite bull of Paris, who therefore followed killed his beloved friend Antheus, and therefore
the men, took part in the games, and conquered filed with Menelaus to Sparta (Lycoph. 134, &c. )
his brothers. One of them drew his sword against The marriage between Paris and Helen was con-
him, but Paris fied to the altar of Zeus Herceius, summated in the island of Cranae, opposite to
and there Cassandra declared him to be her Gytheium, or at Salamis. (Hom. I. ii. 445 ;
brother, and Priam now received him as his son. Paus. iii. 22. 0 2; Lycoph. 110. ) On his return
(Hygin. Fab. 91 ; Serv. ad Aen. v. 370. ) Paris with his bride to Troy, Paris passed through
then married Oenone, the daughter of the river Egypt and Phoenicia, and at length arrived in
god Cebren. As she possessed prophetic powers, Troy with Helen and the treasures which he bad
she cautioned him not to sail to the country of treacherously taken from the hospitable house of
Helen ; but as he did not follow her advice Menelaus (Hom. Od. iv, 228, n. vi. 291 ; Herod.
(Hom. II. v. 64), she promised to heal him if he ii. 113; Dict, Cret. i 5. ) In regard to this
should be wounded, as that was the only aid she journey the accounts again differ, for according to
could afford him. (Apollod. ii. 12. § 6 ; Parthen. the Cypria Paris and Helen reached Troy three
Erot. 4. ) According to some he became, by days after their departure (Herod. ii. 117),
Oenone, the father of Corythus, who was after whereas, according to later traditions, Helen did
wards sent off by his mother to serve the Greeks not reach Troy at all, for Zeus and Hera allowed
as guide on their voyage to Troy. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. only a phantom resembling her to accompany
57. ) Paris himself is further said to have killed Paris to Troy, while the real Helen was carried
his son from jealousy, as he found him with Helen. to Proteus in Egypt, and remained there until she
(Conon, Narr. 23; Parthen. Erot. 34. ) It should, was fetched by Menelaus. (Eurip. Elect. 1280,
however, be mentioned that some writers call &c. , Helen. 33, &c. , 243, 584, 670 ; Herod. ii.
Corvthus a son of Paris by Helen.
118, 120; Lycoph. 113; Philostr. Her. ii. 20,
When Peleus and Thetis solemnized their Vit. Apoll. iv. 16 ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 651, ii. 592. )
nuptials, all the gods were invited, with the The carrying off of Helen froin Sparta gave rise
exception of Eris. But the latter appeared, to the Trojan war. When the Greeks first ap
nevertheless, but not being admitted, she threw peared before Troy, Paris was bold and courageous
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PARIS.
(n. iii. 16, &c. ); but when Menelaus advanced of his reign. (Dion Cass. lxiii. 18; Suet. Ner.
against him, he took to flight. As Hector up | 54. )
braided him for his cowardice, he offered to fight 2. The younger Paris, and the more celebrated
in single combat with Menelaus for the possession of the two, lived in the reign of Domitian. He
of Helen (iii. 70). Menelaus accepted the chal- was originally a native of Egypt (hence called sules
lenge, and Paris though conquered was removed Nili by Martial, xi. 13), and repaired to Rome,
from the field of battle by Aphrodite (iii. 380). where his wonderful skill in pantomimic dances
The goddess then brought Helen back to him, and gained him the favour of the public, the love of the
as she as well as Hector stirred him up, he after. profligate Roman matrons, and such influence at
wards returned to battle, and slew Menesthius the imperial court that he was allowed to promote
(vi. 503, vii. 2, &c. ). He steadily refused to give his creatures to places of high office and trust. It
up Helen to the Greeks, though he was willing to is stated by the Pseudo-Suetonius, in his life of
restore the treasures he had stolen at Sparta (vii. Juvenal, and by the ancient commentators, that
347, &c. ). Homer describes Paris as a handsome this poet was banished to Egypt on account of his
man, as fond of the female sex and of music, and attack upon Paris (vii. 86–91), but there seems
as not ignorant of war, but as dilatory and cow good reason for rejecting this story, as we have
ardly, and detested by his own friends for having shown in the life of Juvenal (JUVENALIS). The
brought upon them the fatal war with the Greeks. popularity of Paris was at length his ruin. Do
He killed Achilles by a stratagem in the sanctuary mitia, the wife of the emperor, fell desperately in
of the Thymbraean Apollo (Hom. Il. xxii. 359; love with him ; but when Domitian became ac-
Dict. Cret. iv. 11 ; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 85, 322, vi. quainted with the intrigue, he divorced his wife,
57); and when Troy was taken, he himself was and had Paris murdered in the public street. So
wounded by Philoctetes with an arrow of Heracles infuriated was he against the actor, that he even
(Soph. Philoct. 1426), and then returned to his put to death a youth who was a pupil of Paris,
long abandoned first wife Oenone. But she, re- merely because he bore a resemblance to his master
membering the wrong she had suffered, or according in form and in skill. The people deeply deplored
to others being prevented by her father, refused to the death of their favourite ; some strewed the spot
heal the wound, or could not heal it as it had been where he fell with flowers and perfumes, for which
inflicted by a poisoned arrow.
He then returned act they were killed by the tyrant; and Martial
to Troy and died. Denone soon after changed her only expressed the general feeling of the city, when
mind, and hastened after him with remedies, but he called him in the epithet (xi. 13) which he com-
came too late, and in her grief hung herself. posed in his honour,
(Apollod. iii. 12. 8 6 ; Dict. Cret. iv. 19. ) Accord-
“ Romani decus et dolor theatri. "
ing to others she threw herself from a tower, or (Dion Cass. lxvii. 3 ; Suet. Dom. 3, 10; Juv. vi.
rushed into the flames of the funeral pile on which 82—87, and Schol. )
the body of Paris was burning. (Lycoph. 65; PARIS, JU’LIUS, the abbreviator of Valerius
Tzetz. ad Lyc. 61; Q. Smyrn. 1. 467. ). By Maximus, is spoken of in the life of the latter.
Helena, Paris is said to have been the father of (Vol. II. p. 1002. )
Bunicus (Bunomus or Bunochus), Corythus, Aga- PARISADES (PAERISADES. ]
nus, Idaeus, and of a daughter Helena (Dict. PARME'NIDES (Tlapuevions), a distinguished
Cret. v. 5; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 851 ; Parthen. Erot. Greek philosopher, the son of Pyrrhes. He was
34 ; Ptolem. Hephaest. 4. ) Paris was represented born in the Greek colony of Elea in Italy, which
in works of art as a youthful man, without a beard bad probably been founded not long before ſol. 61),
and almost feminine beauty, with the Phrygian and was descended from a wealthy and illustrious
cap, and sometimes with an apple in his hand, family (Diog. Laërt. ix. 21—25, with Sim. Kars-
which he presented to Aphrodite. (Comp. Mus. ten's emendation in Parmenidis Eleatue carminis
Pio-Clement. ï. 37. )
(L. S. ) Reliquiae, Amstelodami, 1835, p.
greatest care, but they both appear to have been abstracts on the dialects by the anonymous writers
of inferior capacity, which was anything but com- known as Grammaticus Leidensis and Grammaticus
pensated by worth of character, though Paralus Meermannianus. An edition by G. H. Schaeffer,
seems to have been a somewhat more hopeful containing the treatises published by Koenius, and
youth than his brother. Both of them got the one or two additional, among which was the tract
nickname of Bλιττομάμμας. Both Xanthippus of Manuel Moschopulus, De Vocum Passionibus
and Paralus fell victims to the plague B. c. 429. [MoscHOPULUS), was subsequently published, 8vo.
(Plut. Pericl. 24, 36, de Consolat. p. 118, e. ; Plat. Leipzig, 1811, with copious notes and observations,
Alcib. i. p. 118, e. , with the scholiast on the passage, by Koenius, Bastius, Boissonade, and Schaeffer ;
Protag. p. 319, e. ; Athen. xi. p. 505,506. ) and a Commentatio Palaeographica, by Bastius.
2. A friend of Dion of Syracuse (Dion), who Several works of Pardus are extant in MSS. ; they
was governor of Minoa under the Carthaginians at are on Grammar ; the most important are appa-
the time when Dion landed in Sicily and gained rently that Περί συντάξεως λόγου ήτοι περί του μη
possession of Syracuse. See Vol. 1. p. 1028. coloričelv kai nepi Baplapio uoŮ, K. 7. 1. , De Con-
(Diod. xvi. 9. )
(C. P. M. ] structione Orationis, vel de Soloecismo et Barbarismo,
PARCAE. (Moira. )
&c. ; that Περί τρόπων ποιητικών, De Tropis Poe-
PARDUS, GREGORIUS or GEORGIUS ties; and especially that entitled 'Egryto eis eis tois
(Γρηγόριος 8. Γεώργιος Πάρδος), Archbishop of ή κανόνας των δεσποτικών εορτών, κ. τ. λ. , Erposi-
Corinth, on which account he is called in some tiones in Canones s. Hymnos Dominicos Festorum-
MSS. GEORGIUS (or GREGORIUS) CORINTHUS que totius Anni, et in Trivia Magnae Hebdomadis
(Kópavos), and, by an error of the copyist, Cori ac Festorum Deiparae, a grammatical exposition of
THUS (Kopitov, in Gen. ) and CORUTUS (Kopútov, the hymns of Cosmas and Damascenus (Cosmas OP
in Gen. ), or CORYTUS, a Greek writer on gram- JERUSALEM ; DAMASCENUS, Joannes), used in
mar of uncertain date. The only clue that we the Greek Church ; a work which has been, by
have to the period in which he lived is a passage the oversight of Possevino, Sixtus of Sena, and
in an unpublished work of his, De Constructione others, represented as a collection of Homiliae et
Orationis, in which he describes Georgius Pisida Sermones. (Allatius de Georgiis, p. 416, ed. Paris,
(GEORGIUS, No. 44), Nicolaus Callicles, and Theo- et apud Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xii. p. 122, &c. i
dorus Prodmmus as “ more recent writers of lambic Koenius, Praef. in Gregor. Corinth. ; Fabric. Bibl.
verse. ". Nicolaus and Theodorus belong to the Graec. vol vi. pp. 195, &c. 320, 34), vol. ir. p.
reign of Alexius I. Comnenus (A. D. 1081-1118), 742. )
(J. C. M. )
and therefore Pardus must belong to a still later PARE'GOROS (Napíropos), i. e. , “the ad-
## p. 122 (#138) ############################################
122
PARIS.
PARIS
2
dressing," is the name of a goddess whose statue, a golden apple among the guests, with the in-
along with that of Peitho, stood in the temple of scription, “ to the fairest. " (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 93 ;
Aphrodite at Megara. (Paus. i. 43. & 6. ) [L. S. ) Serv. ad Aen. i. 27. ) Here, Aphrodite and
PAREIA (Πάρεια), 8 surname of Athena, Athena began to dispute as to which of them the
under which she had a statue in Laconia, perhaps apple should belong. Zeus ordered Hermes to
80 called only from its being made of Parian take the goddesses to mount Gargarus, a portion
marble. (Paus. iii. 20. & 8. ) Pareia is also the of Ida, to the beautiful shepherd Paris, who was
name of a nymph by whom Minos became the there tending his flocks, and who was to decide
father of Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Plii- the dispute. (Eurip. Iphig. Aul. 1302, 1298 ;
lojaus. (Apollod. iii. 1. & 2. )
(L. S. ) Paus. v. 19. § 1; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 986. )
PARIS (Tlápis), also called Alexander, was Hera promised him the sovereignty of Asia and
the second son of Priam and Hecabe. Previous great riches, Athena great glory and renown in
to his birth Hecabe dreamed that she had given war, and Aphrodite the fairest of women, Heien,
birth to a firebrand, the flames of which spread in marriage. Hereupon Paris declared Aphrodite
over the whole city. This dream was interpreted to be the fairest and deserving of the golden
to her by Aesacus, or according to others by Cas- apple. This judgment called forth in Hera and
sandra (Eurip. Androm. 298), by Apollo (Cic. De Athena fierce hatred of Troy. (Hom. 1. xxiv.
Dirin. i. 21), or by a Sibyl (Paus. x. 12. & 1), and 25, 29; Schol. ad Eurip. Hecub. 637, Troad.
was said to indicate that Hecabe should give birth 925, &c. , Helen. 23, &c. , Androm. 284 ; Hygin.
to a son, who should bring about the ruin of his Fab. 92 ; Lucian, Dial. Deor. 20. ) Under the
native city, and she was accordingly advised to protection of Aphrodite, Paris now carried off
expose the child. Some state that the soothsayers Helen, the wife of Menelaus, from Sparta. (Hom.
urged Hecabe to kill the child, but as she was n. iii. 46, &c. ; Apollod. ii. 12. & 6. ) The ac-
unable to do so, Priam exposed him. (Schol. ad counts of this rape are not the same in all writers,
Eurip. Androm. 294, Iphig. Aul. 1285. ) The for according to some Helen followed her seducer
boy accordingly was entrusted to a shepherd, willingly and without resistance, owing to the
Agelaus, who was to expose him on Mount influence of Aphrodite (Hom. N. iii. 174), while
Ida. But after the lapse of five days, the Menelaus was absent in Crete (Eurip. Troad.
shepherd, on returning to mount Ida, found the 939); some say that the goddess deceived Helen,
child still alive, and fed by a she-bear. He by giving to Paris the appearance of Menelaus
accordingly took back the boy, and brought (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1946); according to others
him up along with his own child, and called him Helen was carried off by Paris by force, either
Paris. (Eurip. Troad. 921. ) When Paris had during a festival or during the chase. (Lycoph.
grown up, he distinguished' himself as a valiant 106 , Serv. ad Aen. i. 526 ; Dict. Cret. i. 3 ;
defender of the flocks and shepherds, and hence Ptolem. Hephaest. 4.
) Respecting the voyage
received the name of Alexander, i. e. the defender of Paris to Greece, there likewise are different
of men. He now also succeeded in discovering accounts. Once, it is said, Sparta was visited
his real origin, and found out his parents. (A pollod. by a famine, and the oracle declared that it should
iii. 12. § 5. ) This happened in the following not cease, unless the sons of Prometheus, Lycus
manner :-“Priam, who was going to celebrate a and Chimaereus, who were buried at Troy, were
funeral solemnity for Paris, whom he believed to propitiated. Menelaus accordingly went to Troy,
be dead, ordered a bull to be fetched from the and Paris afterwards accompanied him from Troy
herd, which was to be given as a prize to the to Delphi. (Lycoph. 132 ; Eustath. ad Hom.
victor in the games. The king's servants took p. 521. ) Others say that Paris involuntarily
the favourite bull of Paris, who therefore followed killed his beloved friend Antheus, and therefore
the men, took part in the games, and conquered filed with Menelaus to Sparta (Lycoph. 134, &c. )
his brothers. One of them drew his sword against The marriage between Paris and Helen was con-
him, but Paris fied to the altar of Zeus Herceius, summated in the island of Cranae, opposite to
and there Cassandra declared him to be her Gytheium, or at Salamis. (Hom. I. ii. 445 ;
brother, and Priam now received him as his son. Paus. iii. 22. 0 2; Lycoph. 110. ) On his return
(Hygin. Fab. 91 ; Serv. ad Aen. v. 370. ) Paris with his bride to Troy, Paris passed through
then married Oenone, the daughter of the river Egypt and Phoenicia, and at length arrived in
god Cebren. As she possessed prophetic powers, Troy with Helen and the treasures which he bad
she cautioned him not to sail to the country of treacherously taken from the hospitable house of
Helen ; but as he did not follow her advice Menelaus (Hom. Od. iv, 228, n. vi. 291 ; Herod.
(Hom. II. v. 64), she promised to heal him if he ii. 113; Dict, Cret. i 5. ) In regard to this
should be wounded, as that was the only aid she journey the accounts again differ, for according to
could afford him. (Apollod. ii. 12. § 6 ; Parthen. the Cypria Paris and Helen reached Troy three
Erot. 4. ) According to some he became, by days after their departure (Herod. ii. 117),
Oenone, the father of Corythus, who was after whereas, according to later traditions, Helen did
wards sent off by his mother to serve the Greeks not reach Troy at all, for Zeus and Hera allowed
as guide on their voyage to Troy. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. only a phantom resembling her to accompany
57. ) Paris himself is further said to have killed Paris to Troy, while the real Helen was carried
his son from jealousy, as he found him with Helen. to Proteus in Egypt, and remained there until she
(Conon, Narr. 23; Parthen. Erot. 34. ) It should, was fetched by Menelaus. (Eurip. Elect. 1280,
however, be mentioned that some writers call &c. , Helen. 33, &c. , 243, 584, 670 ; Herod. ii.
Corvthus a son of Paris by Helen.
118, 120; Lycoph. 113; Philostr. Her. ii. 20,
When Peleus and Thetis solemnized their Vit. Apoll. iv. 16 ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 651, ii. 592. )
nuptials, all the gods were invited, with the The carrying off of Helen froin Sparta gave rise
exception of Eris. But the latter appeared, to the Trojan war. When the Greeks first ap
nevertheless, but not being admitted, she threw peared before Troy, Paris was bold and courageous
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PARMENIDES.
123
as Lx. SS:
rodite and
Hems
IS, 3 prerazen
302
,
B. COM
of Asia and
Meno:
Apnd2
the pica
Her ned
. II
. 11
7. Treba
Under the
wied d
The
7
i
ELE
Tread
d Here
lestros
Lrcapá
ti];
PARIS.
(n. iii. 16, &c. ); but when Menelaus advanced of his reign. (Dion Cass. lxiii. 18; Suet. Ner.
against him, he took to flight. As Hector up | 54. )
braided him for his cowardice, he offered to fight 2. The younger Paris, and the more celebrated
in single combat with Menelaus for the possession of the two, lived in the reign of Domitian. He
of Helen (iii. 70). Menelaus accepted the chal- was originally a native of Egypt (hence called sules
lenge, and Paris though conquered was removed Nili by Martial, xi. 13), and repaired to Rome,
from the field of battle by Aphrodite (iii. 380). where his wonderful skill in pantomimic dances
The goddess then brought Helen back to him, and gained him the favour of the public, the love of the
as she as well as Hector stirred him up, he after. profligate Roman matrons, and such influence at
wards returned to battle, and slew Menesthius the imperial court that he was allowed to promote
(vi. 503, vii. 2, &c. ). He steadily refused to give his creatures to places of high office and trust. It
up Helen to the Greeks, though he was willing to is stated by the Pseudo-Suetonius, in his life of
restore the treasures he had stolen at Sparta (vii. Juvenal, and by the ancient commentators, that
347, &c. ). Homer describes Paris as a handsome this poet was banished to Egypt on account of his
man, as fond of the female sex and of music, and attack upon Paris (vii. 86–91), but there seems
as not ignorant of war, but as dilatory and cow good reason for rejecting this story, as we have
ardly, and detested by his own friends for having shown in the life of Juvenal (JUVENALIS). The
brought upon them the fatal war with the Greeks. popularity of Paris was at length his ruin. Do
He killed Achilles by a stratagem in the sanctuary mitia, the wife of the emperor, fell desperately in
of the Thymbraean Apollo (Hom. Il. xxii. 359; love with him ; but when Domitian became ac-
Dict. Cret. iv. 11 ; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 85, 322, vi. quainted with the intrigue, he divorced his wife,
57); and when Troy was taken, he himself was and had Paris murdered in the public street. So
wounded by Philoctetes with an arrow of Heracles infuriated was he against the actor, that he even
(Soph. Philoct. 1426), and then returned to his put to death a youth who was a pupil of Paris,
long abandoned first wife Oenone. But she, re- merely because he bore a resemblance to his master
membering the wrong she had suffered, or according in form and in skill. The people deeply deplored
to others being prevented by her father, refused to the death of their favourite ; some strewed the spot
heal the wound, or could not heal it as it had been where he fell with flowers and perfumes, for which
inflicted by a poisoned arrow.
He then returned act they were killed by the tyrant; and Martial
to Troy and died. Denone soon after changed her only expressed the general feeling of the city, when
mind, and hastened after him with remedies, but he called him in the epithet (xi. 13) which he com-
came too late, and in her grief hung herself. posed in his honour,
(Apollod. iii. 12. 8 6 ; Dict. Cret. iv. 19. ) Accord-
“ Romani decus et dolor theatri. "
ing to others she threw herself from a tower, or (Dion Cass. lxvii. 3 ; Suet. Dom. 3, 10; Juv. vi.
rushed into the flames of the funeral pile on which 82—87, and Schol. )
the body of Paris was burning. (Lycoph. 65; PARIS, JU’LIUS, the abbreviator of Valerius
Tzetz. ad Lyc. 61; Q. Smyrn. 1. 467. ). By Maximus, is spoken of in the life of the latter.
Helena, Paris is said to have been the father of (Vol. II. p. 1002. )
Bunicus (Bunomus or Bunochus), Corythus, Aga- PARISADES (PAERISADES. ]
nus, Idaeus, and of a daughter Helena (Dict. PARME'NIDES (Tlapuevions), a distinguished
Cret. v. 5; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 851 ; Parthen. Erot. Greek philosopher, the son of Pyrrhes. He was
34 ; Ptolem. Hephaest. 4. ) Paris was represented born in the Greek colony of Elea in Italy, which
in works of art as a youthful man, without a beard bad probably been founded not long before ſol. 61),
and almost feminine beauty, with the Phrygian and was descended from a wealthy and illustrious
cap, and sometimes with an apple in his hand, family (Diog. Laërt. ix. 21—25, with Sim. Kars-
which he presented to Aphrodite. (Comp. Mus. ten's emendation in Parmenidis Eleatue carminis
Pio-Clement. ï. 37. )
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