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PAL 
PAL'ATINE, a poft-town of the ftate of New-York, 
on the Mohawk river: 150 miles north of New-York. 
PAL'ATINE BRID'GE, a bridge of ancient Rome, 
now called St. Mary's Bridge, which croftes over from 
the prefent church of St. Mary the Egyptian, at the lower 
end of the Forum Boarium to the Via Trans-tiberina. 
This bridge is fuppofed to be that which Livy fpeaks of 
(Decad. 4.. 1 . 10.), built by M. Fulvius, walked down by 
the Tiber, and afterwards rebuilt by the cenfors Scipio 
Africanus and L. Mummius. Another inundation hav¬ 
ing damaged it, pope Gregory XIII. repaired it, partly 
upon the old piles, in the year 1575. But, another inun¬ 
dation fweeping away fome of it in 1598, it has never 
fince been repaired fo as to be ferviceable. 
PALATINE COU'NTY. See County, vol. iv. 
PAL'ATINE GA'MES, among the Romans, were 
games inftituted in honour of Julius Caefar as fome will 
have it, or, as others fay, of Auguftus, and celebrated 
in his palace during eight days, from the fixth calends of 
January. Suetonius informs us, that Caligula attended 
thefe games when he was aflaflinated. 
PALATINE MOU'NT, one of the feven principal 
hills inclofed within the walls of ancient Rome. Whether 
the Palatine-hill received its name from a people called 
Palantes, or Palatini, or from the beating or ftrollingof 
cattle, in Latin balare and palare ; or from Pales, the 
paftoral goddefs ; or from the burying-place of Pallas; is 
difputed among the learned, and undetermined. (See 
Palace.) Here, however, Romuluslaid the foundation 
of his city, in a quadrangular form ; and here the fame 
king and Tullus Hoftilius kept their courts ; as did after¬ 
wards Auguftus and all the fucceeding emperors ; on 
which account the word palatium came to fignify a royal 
feat. To the eaft of this hill is Mons Caslius, to the fouth 
Mons Aventinus, to the weft Mons Capitolinus, and to 
the north the forum. Its compafs is 1200 paces. Romu¬ 
lus’s houfe, preferved for feveral ages by the care of the 
fenate, was on this hill, near the fpot where the church 
of St. Anaftaiia now ftands ; as was alfo that of his fofter- 
father Fauftulus, near the place now occupied by the 
church of San6la Maria Liberatrice. 
PALATINE TRI'BE, was one of the four tribes in¬ 
to which Rome was anciently divided. Servius Tullus 
added a fourth tribe to the three tribe.s into which Rome 
was divided by Romulus ; and, having inclofed the feven 
hills within the city, and divided it into four quarters, 
which he named from the principal hills they contained, 
heafligned to each tribe its appropriate diftridt. Thus, 
the inhabitants of the Capitoline Mount, the Palatine 
Mount, and the fpace between thefe two hills, compofed 
the firft tribe, called Tribus Palatina. They who dwelt 
in the quarter called Suburra, containing Mount Ctelius, 
formed the fecond tribe, which retained the name -of Tri¬ 
bus Stiburrana. The inhabitants of the Efquiline Mount 
were called Tribus EJ'quilina. And they who lived on the 
Mounts Viminalis and Quirinalis, bore the name of the 
hills on which they were placed, and were called Tribus 
Colima, or Collatina. 
PAL'ATIVE, adj. [from palate.'] Pleafing to the tafte. 
•—Glut not thyfeif with palatine delights. Brown's Clir. 
Mor. 
PALA'TIUM, in ancient geography, a place in the 
territory of Reate, diftant from it twenty-five ftadia. Di- 
onyfms Halicarnafieus reckons it one of the firft towns of 
the Aborigines; and from it Varro accounts for the name 
of the Mons Palatinns ; namely, that a colony from Pala¬ 
tium fettled there. 
PALA'TIUM (Pliny), Pallantium (Paufanias), Pa- 
lanteum (Livy), or Pallanteum (Solinus). This laft 
is the true writing ; the great-grandfather of Evander, 
from whom it took its name, being called Pallas, not 
Palas. A town of Arcadia, which concurred to form 
Megalopolis. From it the Palatium, or Mons Palatums, 
takes alfo its name, according to Virgil and Pliny. 
PALA'TIIIM DIOCLESIA'NI, the Villa of Diocle- 
P A L 
sian, near Salonte, where he died. Afterwards called 
Spalatum, which rofe to a confiderable city from the ruins 
of Salonas; fituatgd in Dalmatia, on the Adriatic. Now 
Spalatro. 
PALA'TIUM LUCUL'LI, or Villa Luculli ; a 
place between Mifenum and Baias in Campania, of won¬ 
derful ftrufture. Now in ruins, and called Pifcina Mi- 
rabile. 
PALATULUN'GA, a town of Hindooftan, in Coim- 
betore : fifteen miles fouth-weft of Erroad. 
PALAT'Z. See Milets. 
PALAVA'I, a town of the ifland of Ceylon : forty- 
eight miles weft-north-weft of Candy. 
PALAVAS'ENY, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Joodpour : fifteen miles eaft of Joodpour. 
PALA'VER, f. [fuppofed to be from the Spanifh pala- 
bra, a word; whence, in Shakefpeare, palabras is twice 
ufed in a cant fenfe, the context implying, Let us have 
no more talk, no more words. Hence alfo to palabrize, 
to flatter, to talk one over with fine ftories, crept into 
the language, as in Cockeram’s old vocabulary ; which 
has been fucceeded by the modern verb palaver, in the 
fame fenfe : but it is ufed only by the vulgar.] Superflu¬ 
ous talk ; deceitful converfation. Todd.—Palaver is de¬ 
rived from the ordinary Celtic word parabl, loquela. 
Whiter Eti/m. Magn. —Upon this quotation, furnifhed 
by Mr. Todd, our “ Etymological Gleaner” very juftly 
remarks, It is well known that parabl is not a Celtic 
word, but a Greek one, wapafSofo); from which we have 
alfo made parable, an intricate fpeech, a circumlocution, 
an enigma, or fimile. 
Palaver is alfo an African term, denoting a court of 
juftice, ora public meeting of any kind. New Cyclopadia. 
PALA'VIA, f. [fo named in honour of Don Antonio 
Palau y Verdera, profeffor of botany in the royal garden 
at Madrid, who tranflated the Philofophia Botanica of 
Linnteus into Spanifh, and who, according to Cavanilles, 
has given much attention to the genera and fpecies of 
plants. This gentleman is the author of feveral botani¬ 
cal or economical treatifes in his native tongue.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs monadelphia, order polyan- 
dria, natural order of columniferae, (malvaceae, Jujf.) 
Generic charafters—Calyx : perianthiurn one-leafed, half- 
five-cleft, permanent. Corolla: petals five, roundifh, in- 
ferted into the bafe of the tube of ftamens, Stamina : fi¬ 
laments very many, united below into a tube, in the top 
of the tube free; antherae roundifh. Piftillum : germ 
globular; ftyle many-cleft at top, fliort; itigmas capi¬ 
tate. Perianthiurn: capfule roundifh, many-celled : cells 
not opening, placed in a ball on the elevated central re¬ 
ceptacle. Seeds folitary, roundifh, angular.— Ejfential 
Character. Calyx half-five-cleft; ftyle many-cleft; cap¬ 
fule many-celled : cells in a ball on the raifed central re¬ 
ceptacle. There are two fpecies. 
1. Palavia maivifolia: with fmooth cordate leaves, ei¬ 
ther obtufely and deeply crenated, or lobed. This is an 
annual, with red, declinate, very-branchy, ftems, fcarcely 
a palm long; leaves fublobate, fmooth, alternate, with 
footftalks almoft their own length : ftipules fmall, black- 
ifh, lanceolate, and hifpid. Flowers on long Angle pe¬ 
duncles, which are red, and fhorter than the leaves : co¬ 
rolla rofe-coloured. It is a native of fandy places at Li¬ 
ma in Peru, where it was firft obferved by Dombey : it 
flowers in that region in July, Auguft, and September. 
2. Palavia mofchata: with tomentofe, cordate, and 
ovate-crenated, leaves. This, which is the Sida mofcha¬ 
ta of Dombey, is alfo an annual; growing in fandy places 
in the neighbourhood of Lima, where it was alfo firft ob- 
ferved by Dombey. The whole plant is downy, and has 
a mufky fmell. The ftem is upright, branchy, and two 
feet high : leaves fomewhat wrinkled, cordate-ovate, fub¬ 
lobate, or obtufely and widely crenated ; they (land al¬ 
ternate. Flowers folitary, axillary, and pedunculated : 
peduncles jointed, and longer than the leaves ; they are 
large, and of a yellowifli purple. 
PALAWAN'. 
