132 MYTHOLOGY. 



Pse'an. — A name for both Apollo and TEsculaplus. 



Palai'mon. — Son of Leucothoa, and a god of the sea, invoked 

 by sailors. 



Pa'les. — The goddess presiding over cattle and pastures. 



Pallas. — Minerva. 



Pan. — The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of 

 fishing and fowling. His favorite residence was Arcadia. 



Pando'ra. — A goddess sent by Jupiter to bless man. She was 

 furnished with a box containing her marriage presents, 

 into which every god had put some blessing. She opened 

 the bos incautiously, and the blessings all escaped, hope 

 only excepted. 



Peg'asus. — A certain winged horse of the IMuses who sprang 

 from the blood of Medusa when she was slain, and with a 

 blow of his hoof caused Hippocreue, the fountain of the 

 Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon is 

 fabled to have ridden him when he slew the Chimaira. 

 But when Bellerophon wished to fly on his back to heaven, 

 he threw him oif and ascended to the skies alone, where he 

 was changed into a constellation. 



Pena'tes. — The gods who were supposed to attend to the wel- 

 fare and prosperity of the family. 



Pe'neus. — A river-god, and father of Daphne. 



Perseph'one. — Proserpine. 



Phoe'bus. — Apollo. 



Plei'ades. — The daughters of Atlas and the nymphs of Diana's 

 train. Fleeing from Orion, who became enamored of them, 

 Jupiter turned them into pigeons and made them a constel- 

 lation in the heavens. Electa, one of them, left her place 

 that she might not behold the ruins of Troy. 



Plu'to. — King of the lower world or region of departed spirits. 



Plu'tus. — God of wealth. 



Polyhym'nia. — See Muses. 



Pollux. — See Castor. 



Pomo'na. — The goddess presiding over fruit-trees. 



Portu'nus. — The Romans so called Leucothea. 



Poseidon.— Neptune. 



Prome'theus. — One of the Titans to whom, with his brother 

 Epimetheus, was committed the office of making man. 

 Having transgressed the will of Jupiter, he was chained to 

 a rock on Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed on his 

 liver, which was renewed as fast as devoured. 



