He was consul 40 B

C., and was governor of Transpadane Gaul. He defeated the Parthians in Illyria in 39. his works survive. He was a patron of Vergil and Horace. Only fragments of Pöllnitz (pėl'nits), Baron Karl Ludwig von. Born at I um, Pru ian Rhine Province, Feb. 25, 1692: died at Berlin, June 23, 1775. Á German writer of memoirs. He was reader to Frederick the Great and theatrical director in Berlin. His works include "Lettres et mémoires, etc." (1738-40), "État abrégé de la cour de Saxe, etc." (1734), etc. He was probably also the author of "His to ire secrète de la duche e d'Hanovre" (1732), and of "La Saxe galante " (1734). Pollock (pol'ok), Sir Jonathan Frederick. Born Sept. 23, 1783: died Aug. 23, 1870. An English jurist, attorney-general 1834-35, 1841-44. Pollock, Sir George. Born at Westminster, June 4, 1786: died Oct. 6, 1872. An English general, brother of Sir Frederick Pollock. He commanded the British army in Afghanistan in 1842, and entered Kabul in Sept. Pollock shaws (pol-ok-shaz'). A manufacturing town in Renfrewshire, Scotland, 3 miles south-southwest of Glasgow. Population (1891), 10,228. Pollok (pol'ok), Robert. Born at Moor house, Renfrewshire, 1798 (?): died at Southampton, Sept. 17, 1827. A Scottish religious poet. He was educated at Glasgow University. His chief work, "The Course of Time," was published in 1827, six months before his death. His theology was strongly Calvin is tic. Pollux (pol'uks), or Poly deuces (pol-i-du's ez). [Gr. [Gr. Πολυδεύκης .] 1. In Greek mythology, the twin brother of Castor, one of the Dioscuri. See Castor and Pollux and Dioscuri . - 2. An orange star of magnitude 1.2 ( ẞ Geminorum), in the head of the following twin. government of Vitebsk, Ru ia, situated at the junction of the Polota with the Düna, 59 miles west-northwest of Vitebsk. It was stormed by the French in 1812. Population, 20,064. Polotsk, Principality of. A medieval principality of Ru ia, in the basin of the Düna. Poltava. See Pultowa . Polybius (po-lib'i-us). [Gr. Πολύβιος .] Born at Megalopolis, Arcadia, Greece, 204 в. с.: died about 125 в. с. A celebrated Greek historian. He was in the service of the Achæan League; was taken as a political prisoner to Rome about 169; became a friend of Scipio the Younger; was released in 151; and was later engaged in settling the affairs of Achaia. He went to Egypt in 181, with his father and Aratus, as an amba ador of the Achæan League. He was the author of a history of Rome in 40 books, five of which, with fragments of the others, have been preserved. Polycarp (pol'i-kärp). [L. Poly carpus , from Gr. Πολύκαρπος.] Born before 69 A. D.: burned at Smyrna, 155 (?). A Christian martyr, bishop of Smyrna: author of an epistle to the Philip pians. Poly chronic on (pol-i-kron'i-kon). A chronicle of universal history, by Ralph Higden, finished in 1366: a continuation was added to the year 1413. It begins with a sketch of the history of the known world, with lives of Adam, Abraham, etc., and brings its entries down to the time of writing. It was translated into English by John of Trevis a. Polycletus (pol-i-klē'tus), or Poly clit us (-kli'tus), of Sicyon. [Gr. Πολύκλειτος.] Lived in the last part of the 5th century B. C. A celebrated Greek sculptor and architect. He is a ociated with the high development of abstract proportion which characterizes Greek sculpture. He seems to have realized the athletic type or ideal to the entire satisfaction Polly (pol'i). A ballad-opera by John Gay: a sequel to "The Beggar's Óper a." It was ready for the stage in 1728, but was suppre ed by the government, some members of which had been satirized in the first opera. Gay published it, however, in 1729, and it brought of the Greek world, and made a figure embodying the ac cepted proportions, which was called "the canon." This canon is supposed to have been a simple figure carrying a spear (doryphorus), described by Pliny and properly represented by several replicas. The best of these was found at Pompeii, and is in the museum at Naples. Another statue of almost equal importance is mentioned by Pliny, and called "diadumenos" ( i . e., an athlete binding a fillet about his head). The best replica is in the British Museum; the original was sold at one time for 100 talents about $117,000. The most important monumental work of Polycletus was the chryselephantine Hera at Argos, represented by the so-called Ludovisi Juno. The Century Cyclopedia of Names Polycletus Polycletus, "The Younger." Lived about 400 B. C. A Greek sculptor of Argos. Poly crates (po-lik'ra-tēz). [Gr. Πολυκράτης.] Put to death 522 в. с. Tyrant of Samos from about 536 (or 532) to 522. He was a patron of literature and art. He had formed an alliance with Amasis, king of Egypt, who, however, finally renounced it through alarm at the amazing good fortune of Poly crates, which never met with any check or disaster, and which therefore was sure, sooner or later, to incur the envy of the gods Such, at least, Hero dot us, who has the of the rupture between Amasis and Poly crates in his most dramatic manner. In a letter which Amasis wrote to Polyc. rates, the Egyptian monarch advised him to throw away one of his most valuable po e ions, in order that he might thus inflict some injury upon himself. In accordance with this advice Poly crates threw into the sea a seal-ring of extraordinary beauty; but in a few days it was found in the belly of a fish, which had been presented to him by a fish erm an. Thereupon Amasis immediately broke off his alliance with him.