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ffuch as continue fingle or ill-coloured may be planted 
in beds, to propagate for medicinal ufe. 
PvEON'IDES, a name given to the daughters of Pierus, 
(who were defeated by the Mufes,) becaufe their mother 
was a native of Pasonia. 
PAs'ONITES, f. A name given by fome writers to the 
done called by others pceanites, and efteemed of great ufe 
to women in labour. It feems to have been called peeonites, 
from Psonia, in Macedonia, where it was found. 
PAES, a river of Lapland, which runs into the North 
Sea in lat. 70. N. 
PAESIEL'LO (John), an eminent Italian mufician and 
compofer, was born at Tarento, in the kingdom of Naples, 
on the-9th of May, 1740. He was particularly noticed in 
his youth by his fovereign, and afterwards patronifed by 
the principal potentates of Europe. Penfioned by more 
than one fovereign, he enjoyed an ample fortune. Placed 
above want from the age of thirteen, and free from all do- 
mellic cares, he was enabled to execute a great number 
of works. 
From his early youth he gave way to the fire of his in¬ 
vention, which art could hardly reftrain, much lefs con¬ 
fine to rule. His wildnefs, however, w'as never grotefque, 
ungraceful, crude, wild, or offenfive to cultivated ears; 
but confided of the mod happy flights of fancy, pleafing 
melodies, and new effects of accompaniment. He at fil’d 
worked at little dramas in the Neapolitan jargon, fo dif¬ 
ferent from good Italian, that it is totally unintelligible to 
the red of Italy. He compofed for the burletta a comic 
opera in Italian, as early as 1765, Amove in Ballo; and, in 
1766, Le Nozze Turbate. In 1770, (fays Dr. Burney,) 
we heard at Naples his comic opera called Le Trume per 
Amove, in which, though the finging was but indifferent, 
and out of nine characters there was not one good voice, 
yet the mufic pleafed us extremely. The fymphony, con¬ 
fiding of only one movement, was truly comic, and con¬ 
tained a perpetual fucceflion of pleafing paflages. The 
airs were full of fire and fancy, the ritornels abounding 
with new paflages, and the vocal parts in elegant and Am¬ 
ple melody, fuch as might be remembered and carried 
away after the fird hearing, or be performed in private by 
a fmall band, or even without any other indrument than 
a harpficliord or pianoforte. From that time he conti¬ 
nued improving in his dyle, both in ferious and comic 
operas; and the public all over Europe was not infenfible 
to his tranfcendent merit, and he was judly regarded at 
the head of vocal composition, as Haydn of indrumental. 
In 1770 he was the only compofer in Naples who could 
make head again d the high favour in which Piccini then 
flood, after his Buona Figliuola. 
He compofed twenty-feven grand operas, fifty-one 
comic operas, eight intermezzos, and an infinite number 
of cantatas, oratorios, mafles, motets, Te Deums, See. 
fieven fymphonies for the emperor Jofeph II. feveral pieces 
for the piano, for the queen of Spain; and many theatri¬ 
cal pieces for the court of Ruflia. 
It may be faid, that Paefiello invented his dyle parti¬ 
cularly for the comic opera. His principal ferious operas 
are, the Olympiad, Pyrrhus, Elfreda, Dido, and Profer- 
pine. In the magical kind, what can be more aftefting 
and tender than his celebrated duo in the Olympiad ? No¬ 
thing can be more noble or dignified than his Pyrrhus: 
feveral fragments of his Proferpine are chefs-d’oeuvre. 
The feene where one of the nymphs of Ceres lofes her 
fpeech at the moment of divulging the fecret of the gods, 
or the Rape of Proferpine, is one of the happied traits of 
genius. In another dyle, what can be more natural or 
touching than his Nina, more pifturefque than his Barber 
jdJ Seville, more Ample or more na'ive than his Molinara ; 
or, to conclude, what melody more rich than his Frafca- 
tana, and his celebrated piece of King Theodore. 
Fertile in invention, correft in his defigns, happy in the 
choice of his chords, judicious in his accompaniments and 
images, varied in his melodious turns, and contraded in 
litis details, yet alw'ays keeping in view the drifted unity; 
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this great mader obferves the drifted propriety, and never 
commits an excefs. Exaft: without fervility, natural with¬ 
out negligence, at once full of art and fimplicity, he is al¬ 
ways diverfified, and always the fame. 
Paefiello not only fliowed himfelf fuperior in the ferious 
and comic opera, but alfo in facred mufic. He has left 
in the library of the king’s chapel a colleftion of twenty- 
fix mafles, of which feveral are mader-pieces. 
Paefiello was not only a great mufician, but poflefled a 
great fund of information : he was$well verfed in the dead 
languages, and converfant in all the branches of litera¬ 
ture, and on terms of friendfhip with the mod diflin- 
guiflied perfons of the age. Endowed with a great mind, 
and which his eminent talents and the great reputation 
he enjoyed in Europe raifed above all the meaner paflions 
of the foul, he knew neither envy nor rivalfhip. He died 
at Naples the 5th of June, 1816, aged feventy-fix. That 
city rendered him funeral honours, in caufing to be exe¬ 
cuted a mafs for the dead, found amongfl his papers. 
The fame evening his Nina was performed at the opera ; 
and the king of Naples, and the whole court, deigned to 
be prefent, to difplay the intered they felt for an illudri- 
ous compofer, who, for half a century, honoured modern 
Italy. Eloge delivered at the Royal Injtitute, by the Chev. le 
Sueur, Superintendent of Mufic to the King of France. 
PAs'STUM, in ancient geography, a town of Lucania, 
called alfo Neptunia and Pofidonia by the Greeks, where 
the foil produced rofes which bloflomed twice a-year. 
The ancient walls of the town, about three miles in ex¬ 
tent, are dill danding, and likewife venerable remains of 
temples and porticoes. The Sinus Pasdanus, on which it 
dood, is now called the Gulf of Salerno. 
PA'EZ (Pedro), a man defervedly eminent in the hif. 
tory of the Jefuits and of Abyflinia, was a Cadilian, born 
atToledo, of a noble family. He entered thefociety ; and, 
having completed his dudies, was fent to India in the 
year 1588. The Portuguefe, in Abyflinia, were at this 
time without a patriarch, or any fpiritual aflidant, fo diffi¬ 
cult was it to introduce them into that kingdom, every 
entrance into which was in pofleflion of the Turks or 
Moors. To this million Paez and P. Antonio de Montfer- 
rat were appointed. They were made prifoners on their 
way, and fent to the court of the king of Xael, by whom 
they were kindly treated ; but, being himfelf tributary to 
the pacha of Yemen, and bound by treaty to fend him all 
the Portuguefe who might fall into his hands, they were 
fent to Canaan, the capital, where the pacha relided. At 
fird their captivity was eafy; but afterwards they were 
treated with great barbarity, in hopes that he might ob¬ 
tain a very large ranfom for their liberty. At length the 
viceroy of India obtained their deliverance, upon the pay¬ 
ment of a thoufand crowns ; and they returned to India, 
where Montferrat foon afterwards died. 
Paez was more fuccefsful in his fecond attempt: he en¬ 
tered Abyflinia very fafely in 1603 ; and, indead of bufy- 
inghimfelf w'ith court-intrigues, and feekingcourt-favour, 
he remained quietly among his flock, tranllating into 
Abyflinian a Compendium of the Chriflian Doftrine, 
which had been written by Marcos George. He indrufted 
fome children ; and the king of the country, hearing of 
their proficiency, fent for the mader and his fcholars to 
exhibit before him : he was delighted with their per¬ 
formance, and became himfelf a thorough convert to the 
Roman-catholic faith; but the zeal which he Ihowed in 
behalf of the new religion, led to his depofition and un¬ 
timely death. Other revolutions followed: when things,. 
however, were become quiet, Paez undertook to build 
a palace at Gorgora, a rocky peninfula on the fouth 
fide of the lake of Dembea. He was himfelf architeft, 
mafon, fmith, and carpenter; and produced a building 
which was the adonifhment of thofe who beheld it. A 
fpring-lock, which he fixed upon one of the doors, faved 
the king’s life, when an attempt was made to aflaffinate 
him. The lad triumph which Paez enjoyed, was that of 
feeing the king put away all his wives except one, and re¬ 
ceiving 
