198 PAG 
PA'GEANT, adj. Showy ; pompous ; oftentatious ; 
fuperficial: 
Were (lie ambitious, fhe difdain’d to own 
The pageant pomp of fuch a fervile throne. Dryden. 
To PA'GEANT, v.a. To exhibit in (how; to repre- 
fent.—That feaft of love and heavenly-admitted friend- 
fhip, the feal of filial grace, became the fubje£t of hor- 
rour and glouting admiration, pageanted about like a 
dreadful idol. Milton. 
With ridiculous and awkward aflion, 
Which, flanderer, he imitation calls, 
He pap cants us. S/iakejpeare's Troil. and Greff. 
FA'GEANTRY, f. Pomp; (how.—Inconveniences are 
confequent to dogmatizing, fuppofing men in the right ; 
but, if they be in the wrong, what a ridiculous pageantry 
is it to fee fuch a philofophical gravity fet man out a fole- 
cifm ! Gov. of the Tongue. 
Such pageantry be to the people (hown ; 
There boat! thy horfe’s trappings and thy own. Dryden. 
PAG'ET’s PO'RT, a fmall harbour within the great 
found in Bahama-ifland, and in the molt eafterly part of 
the found. 
PAG'HAN, or Paghankew. See Pegoncmew. 
PAGHKATAKAN', a town of New Jerfey, on the 
Papachton. Lat. 42. S. N. Ion. 74. 40. W. 
PA'GI (Anthony), a French Francifcan monk, and a 
very able ecclefiaftical hiltorian and chronologer, was 
born at Rogues, a fmall town near Aix in Provence, in 
the year 1624. He embraced the monadic life at Arles, 
in 1641 ; and, after going through the ufual courfes of 
philosophy and divinity, officiated for fome time as 
preacher, with great acceptability : he was alfo much oc¬ 
cupied in the confeffional; and was four times elected 
provincial of his order. Thefe employments, however, 
did not prevent him from applying very affiduoufly to the 
ftudy of chronology and ecclefiaftical hiftory, in which he 
fucceeded fo well, as to become one of the mod able 
critics of his time in thofe branches of learning. In 1682, 
he publifhed a piece entitled “ Difl'ertatio hypatica, feu 
de Confulibus Caefareis,” 4to. which abounds in curious 
remarks, and throws confiderable light on the chrono¬ 
logy of the confulates. But his moft confiderable work 
confifts of a criticifm on the Annals of Baronius, in 
which he follows that learned cardinal year after year, and 
rectifies an infinite number of mlftakes, both in his chro¬ 
nology and in his fafts. It is entitled “ Critica Hifto- 
rico-Chronologica in Univerfos Annales Ecclefnfticos 
Eminent, et Rev. Csef. Card. Baron-ii, in qua rerum nar- 
ratio defenditur, illuftratur, fuppletur, Ordo Temporum 
corrigitur, innovatur, et Periodo Graeco-Romana, nunc 
primum concinnata munitur, &c.” 4 vols. folio. This 
work is diftinguifhed by profound learning, folid and ju¬ 
dicious criticifm, moderation, and candour; and the fim- 
ple ftyle in which it is written is well adapted to chrono¬ 
logical narration. It extends to the year 1198, where 
Baronius finiffies. In compiling it, father Pagi received 
confiderable aftiftance from the abbe de Longuerue. The 
firft volume made its appearance at Paris in the year 16S9, 
and the three following were not printed till after the 
author’s death, under the care of his nephew', the fubjeft 
of the next article, when they were committed to the 
prefs at Geneva, in 1705. A new edition of the whole 
was publiflied at the fame place, in 3727. Father Pagi 
alfo publifhed an edition of the Sermons of St. Anthony 
of Padua, in Latin, in T685; and two anfwers to criti- 
cifms on his Diflertation on the Confulates ; one, ac¬ 
companying that collection of fermons, and the other in 
the Journal des S^avans for November 11, 1686. He died 
at Aix, in 1699, about the age of feventy-five, equally 
beloved for his amiable manners and refpedted for his 
profound learning. 
'PA'GI (Francis), nephew' of the preceding, and a 
miember of the fame religious community, was born at 
PAG 
Lambefc in the year 1654. He commenced his (Indies at 
Toulon, under the fathers of the oratory, and made fo 
great a proficiency in the belles-lettres, that his uncle 
was induced to fend for him to Aix, where he then re¬ 
dded. Francis applied with fuch ardour and afiiduity to 
the ftudy of hiftory', under his uncle’s inftruftions, that 
he was toon able to afford him valuable aftiftance in his 
great work, and was properly entrufted with the care of 
editing the three laft volumes of it, as we have feen above. 
After he had executed this talk, he employed himfelf in 
writing a work of his own, which he publiflied under ther 
title of “ Breviarium Hiftorico-Chronologico-Criticum, 
Illuftriora Pontificum Romanorum Gefta, Conciliorurn 
generalium A£Ia, See. compleclens,” 4 vols. 4to. Th-e 
firft and fecond of thefe volumes made their appearance 
in 1717, the third in 1718, and the fourth not till after 
the author’s death, when it was publiflied by Anthony 
Pagi, the fecond of that name, and nephew' to our au¬ 
thor. This work, which comprifes the hiftory of the 
popes, and of the general councils, together with nu¬ 
merous details relative to the difeipline, the rites, &c. of 
the church, difplays much learned and curious refearch, 
and is drawn up in a ftyle that is correft arid neat. The 
author, however, is a zealous advocate for the higheft 
claims of the pretended fucceffors of St. Peter; and main¬ 
tains fo uniformly and fteadily the infallibility of the 
pope, his fuperiority over councils, the right of appeals 
to the court of Rome, and the papal power of anathe- 
matifing fovereigns, that it ftiould feem that his work was 
undertaken for the exprefs purpofe of defending thofe 
opinions. The author died in 1721, in the fixty-feventh 
year of his age, having pafled through the principal offices 
of truft and honour in his order. 
His nephew, Anthony Pagi, was born at Martigne 
in Provence, and entered among the Jefuits, whom lie 
afterwards quitted, and became provoft of Cavaillon. 
He publiflied, 1. A Hiftory of the Revolutions of the 
Low Countries, 1727, 121110. 2. The Hiftory of Young 
Cyrus, 1736. i2mo. --He was a writer not deilitute of ta¬ 
lents and genius; but his ftyle is diffufe, romantic, and 
culpably negligent. Gen. Biog. 
PAGIET'TA, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Citra ; 
five miles fouth of Langiano. 
PAGI'EL, [Heb. the prayer of God.] A man’s name. 
PAGI'NA, f [Latin.] In botany, the whole furface 
of any part of a plant, including the border. 
PAG'INAL, adj. [pagiua, Lat.] Confiding' of pages.— 
An expreffion proper unto the paginal books of our times, 
but not fo agreeable unto volumes or rolling books,' in 
ufe among the Jews. Brown's Vulg. Err. 
PAG'LESHAM, a village in Eflex, on the eaft fide of 
the Stambridge, is feparated by a creek from Wallefea, or 
Walfleet-ifland, part of which is in its parifh. 
PA'GLI A, a river of Italy, which runs into the Tiber 
a few miles below Orvieto. 
PAGLIANEL'LO, a town of Naples, in Lavora : four¬ 
teen miles north-eaftof Capua. 
PAGLIA'NO, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Ultra 1 
fifteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Aquila. 
PAGLIAPO'LI, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra : 
four miles eaft of Gierace. 
PA'GLION, a river of France, which runs into the 
Mediterranean a little to the eaft of Nice. 
PAGNI'NUS (Sanftes), an Italian Dominican monk, 
diftinguifhed for his (kill in oriental and biblical litera¬ 
ture, was defeended from a refpe< 3 able family, and born at 
Lucca, in the year 1466 or 1470. At the age of fixteen 
he took the habit in a convent of the Dominican order, 
and applied with extraordinary diligence to the ftudy of 
the learned languages, and of divinity. He not only- 
made himfelf mailer of the Latin and Greek, but alfo of 
the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabic, tongues. As he par¬ 
ticularly excelled in the knowledge of Hebrew, he was 
lent by his luperior to teach it in a nionaftery at Lyons, 
where he fpent th^greateft part of his life. Here he dif¬ 
tinguifhed 
