Pantænus (pan-tenus)

[Gr. Πάνταινος.] Lived At at the end of the 2d century A. D. The leader DV of the catechetical school in Alexandria. 701 IMG:content-0880.png:[ocr errors] Pantagoros (pän-tä-gō'rōs). An Indian tribe of Colombia, formerly populous and powerful in the valley of the Magdalen a, about lat. 7o N. They resisted the Spaniards with great courage, and many of them were killed or enslaved. A few remain in the marshy lands near the river. They have been referred to the Paniquita linguistic stock. Pant a gruel (pan-tag'rö-el; F. pron. pon-tä-grüel'). The king of the Dipsodes and son of Gargantua, in Rabelais's "History of Gargantua and Pant a gruel." See Gargantua . 18 Pantalon (pan'ta-lon), or Pantalone (pän-tälõ'ne). A typical character in Italian comedy, of Venetian origin, represented as an old man; the English Pantaloon. ur Pan tellar i a (pän-tel-lä-rē'ä), or Pan teller i a (pän-tel-le-re'a), or Pan talaria (pän-tä-läre'ä). 1. An island in the Mediterranean Sea, situated in lat. 36° 48′ N., long. 12° E.: the ancient Cosyra or Co ura. It belongs to the province of Trapani, Sicily. The surface is volcanic. Area, 58 square miles. Population (1881), 7,178. 2. The chief town of the island, situated on the northwest coast. Population, about 3,000. Panthays (pan'thaz). The Mohammedans of the province of Yunnan, China. They proclaimed their independence in 1855, but were put down about 1872. Pantheon (pan the-on). [Gr. Πάνθειον , neut. of πάνθειος, of all gods.] A building at Rome, now dedicated as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda, completed by Agrippa in 27 B. C., and consecrated to the divine ancestors of the Ju lian family. It is preceded by an octastyle pedimented Corinthian portico, with 2 ranges of 4 columns inside. The plan is circular, with large alternating rectangular and semicircular niches, whose entablature is upheld by columns. The interior diameter is 1424 feet, and the height to the apex of the great hemispherical coffered dome is the same. The lighting of the interior is solely from an open circle, 28 feet in diameter, at the summit of the dome. The effect of the interior is unique and highly imposing. The construction is of concrete, lightly faced with brick, and incrusted (now almost exclusively in the interior) with marble. The dome is practically solid concrete, the familiar system of inset arches being merely one brick deep, and having served as a scaffolding during the erection. Raphael, Annibale Caracci, and Victor Emman uel II. are buried in the Pantheon. It has been proved that the temple never was connected with the baths of Agrippa. Panthéon (pon-ta-ôn'). The Church of Ste. Geneviève in Paris, a large cla ical building in the form of a Greek cro 276 by 370 feet, with a central dome 272 feet high and 75 in diameter. The Corinthian columns of the entrance portico are 81 feet high. The pediment is filled with a sculptured group, by David d'Angers, representing France distributing laurels to her deserving children. The interior is simple and well proportioned. Its walls are in large part covered with paintings, by some of the chief of modern artists, illustrating the development of French history and civil i zati on. There are also some statues of distinguished men. Clovis built on this spot the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, where he was buried, as were afterward Ste. Clotilde This church was probably destroyed by the Normans in the 9th century. The monks of St. Victor established their cloister here in 1148, in the papacy of Eugenius III. Their Romanesque church was replaced by a late-Gothic building after 1489. In 1764 the present church was be and Ste. Geneviève from whom it took its later name. gun under Louis XV., and in 1791 was first set apart for its present purpose, - that of a mausoleum for famous French men,-though it has since at times been used as a church. Abbey. Pantheon of the British, The. Westminster Pantibibla (pan-ti-bib'lä). See the extract. From the earliest period the literature of Chaldea was stored in public libraries. According to Berosos, Pantibibla, or 'book-town,' was one of the antediluvian cities of Babylonia, and Xisuthros had buried his books at Sippara-perhaps in reference to the Semitic sepher, 'book' -before the Flood. Sayce, Anc. Empires, p. 166. Panticapæum (pan"ti-ka-pē'um). [Gr. Παντικάπαιον.] The ancient name of Kertch. Pants chat antra. See Pan chat antra . Pánuco (pä'nö-kō). [Probably from the name of an Indian chief.] The name given by the Spanish conquerors of Mexico to a region on the Gulf Coast, about the Pánuco River (northern Vera Cruz and southern Tamaulipas). It was partially conquered by Cortés in 1522; was claimed by Francisco de Garay in 1523; and in 1526 was a igned to Nuño de Guzman. Somewhat later it was limited to 50 Spanish leagues in length and breadth, though Guzman claimed that it extended westward to the Pacific. Papinian the Marches, Umbria, and Romagna) was annexed to Italy in 1860; and the remainder (including Rome and neighboring districts) was annexed to Italy in 1870. Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John. Cibber's alteration of Shakspere's "King John," produced in 1745: it had been "burked" in 1736-37. Papanazes (pä-pä-näʼzās). (pä-pä-näʼzās). [Probably a double plural from Papana .] Indians on or near the Brazilian coast of Espirito Santo and Porto Se- guro at the time of the Portuguese conquest. They were of the Tupi race. See Tupis . Papan Papantla la (pä-pänt'lä). A town in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 112 miles north-northwest of Vera Cruz. Most of the inhabitants are Totonac In- dians. Near Papantla there is an ancient pyramidal struc- ture (teocalli), with other ruins. Population, about 10,000. Paparrhigopoulos (pä"pä-rē-gop'ö-los), Con- stantine. Born at Constantinople, 1815: died at Athens, April 26, 1891. A Greek historian. He became profe or of history in the University of Athens in 1851. His chief work is a "History of the Greek Peo- ple" (1860-74). Pa Panyasis, uncle of Hero dot us, a man of political note at Halicarna us, where he fought for the freedom of the town against the tyrant Lygdamis, gained a good deal of temporary celebrity by another "Heracleia," in fourteen books. Considerable fragments of a social nature are quoted from it by Stobæus and Athenæus, which specially refer to the use and abuse of wine-drinking. They are elegantly written, written, and and remind remind us us strongly onderagments of the elegiac fragments Papéiti (pä-pa-e'tē), or Papeete. A seaport in was also, according to Suidas, author of elegiac poems, in Tahiti, capital of the Society Islands, Pacific six books, called "Ionica," on the antiquities of Athens, and especially on the Ionic migration.