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PARIL'IUM, f. in botany. See Nrcf antheS. 
PARIL'LA, a town of South-America, in the province 
of Panama: feventy miles north-weft of Panama. 
PARIL'LA, a town of Peru : fifty miles fouth of 
Truxillo. 
PARILO'VA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Irkutlk, on the Angara: fixty-eight miles north of 
Balaganlkoi. 
PARI'MA, called alfo Parana Pitinca, or the White 
Sea, a lake of South America, in Spanifli Guiana, is re- 
prefented by La Cruz as more than zoo Britilh miles in 
length by 50 in breadth. Its extent, and even its ex- 
iftence, have been doubted, as it was the noted feat of 
the city El Dorado, the ftreets of which were paved with 
gold ; a fable, which feems to have arifen from a rock of 
talc reflecting, like a mirror, the golden rays of the fun. 
Lat. 3. 40. N. Ion. 45. 20. W. 
PARI'NA, called alfo the Rio Blanco, or Branco, a 
large river of South America, which rifes in the above 
lake,and, after a foutherly direction of400 miles, runs into 
the Rio Negro feventy miles from Fort Rio Negro. It alio 
joins the great river Maranon. 
PARI'NA CAU'CHA, or Cocha, a town of Peru, 
and capital of a jurifdiction, in the bifliopric of Gua- 
nianga; fertile in cattle, corn, and fruit: but the prin¬ 
cipal riches are from its filverand gold mines. 
PARINA'RI, f. in botany. See Petrocarya. 
PA'RING, f. That which is pared off any thing; the 
rind.—In May, after rain, pare off the furface of the earth, 
and with the parings raife your hills high, and enlarge 
their breadth. Mortimer's Hnjbandry. 
To his gueft though no way fparing. 
He eat himfelf the rind and paring. Pope. 
Paring and Burning, the procefs of paring off the 
furface of lands in the ftate of grafs, in order to convert 
them into tillage by means of fire. It is a practice for the 
molt part; employed on rough coarfe grounds that are 
over-run with ftrong plants of the grafs, mofs, or heath, 
kinds, and on fome raoffy or peaty lands. See the article 
Husbandry, vol. x. p. 529. 
FARI'NO, a town of Mexico, in the province of Culia- 
can : forty-two miles eaft of St. Miguel. 
PAR'IPE, a town of Brafil, in the government of 
Bahia. 
PARIPU'RA, a river of Brafil, which runs into the 
Atlantic in lat. 9. 42. S. Ion. 35. 26. W. 
PAR'IS, fon of Priam, king of Troy, by Hecuba ; alfo 
named Alexander. He was decreed, even before his birth, 
to become the ruin of his country ; and when his mother, 
in the firft months of her pregnancy, had dreamed that 
Ihe Ihould bring forth a torch which would fet fire to her 
palace, the foothfayers foretold the calatnities which were 
to be expeCted from the imprudence of her future fon, 
and which would end in the ruin of Troy. Priam, to 
prevent fo great and fo alarming an evil, ordered his fiave 
Archelaus to deftroy the child as foon as he was born. 
The Have, either touched with humanity or influenced 
by Hecuba, did not obey, but was fatisfied to expofe the 
child on Mount Ida, where the Ihepherds of the place 
found him, and educated him as their own. Some attri¬ 
bute the prefervation of his life, before he was found by 
the Ihepherds, to the motherly tendernefs of a Ihe-bear. 
Young Paris, though educated among Ihepherds and pea- 
fants, gave very early proofs of courage and intrepidity ; 
and^ from his care in protecting the flocks of Mount Ida 
from the rapacity of the wild beafts, he was named Alex¬ 
ander, i. e. “ Helper or Defender.” He gained the efteem 
of all the Ihepherds; and his graceful countenance and 
manly deportment recommended him to the favours of 
CEnone, a nymph of Ida, whom he married, and with 
whom he lived in the moft perfeCl union. Their conjugal 
peace was, however, of no long duration. At the mar¬ 
riage of Peleus and Thetis, the goddefs of difeord, who 
had not been invited to partake of the entertainment, 
PAR 
/flowed her difpleafure, by throwing into the affembly of 
the gods w'ho were at the celebration of the nuptials, a 
golden apple, on which were written the words Detur 
pulchriori, “ Let it be given to the faireft.” All the 
goddeffes claimed it as their own ; the contention at firft 
became general; but at laft only three, Juno, Venus, and 
Minerva, wilhed to difpute their refpeClive right. The 
gods, unwilling to become arbiters in an affair fo tender 
and fo delicate in its nature, appointed Paris to adjudge 
the prize. The goddeffes appeared before their judge 
without ornament, and each endeavoured by promifes 
and entreaties to gain the attention of Paris ; and, to in¬ 
fluence his judgment, Juno promifed him a kingdom ; 
Minerva, military glory ; and Venus, the faireft woman 
in the world. After he had heard their feveral claims 
and promifes, Paris adjudged the prize to Venus, and 
gave her the golden apple, to which, perhaps, flie feetned 
entitled as the goddefs of beauty. This decifion of Paris 
drew upon the judge and his family the refentment of the 
two other goddeffes. 
Soon after, Priam propofed a conteft among his fons 
and other princes, and promifed to reward the conqueror 
with one of the fineft bulls of Mount Ida.' His emiffaries 
were fent to procure the animal; and it was found in the 
poffeflion of Paris, who reluClantly yielded it. The fhep- 
flerd was anxious to regain his favourite; and he went to 
Troy, and entered the lifts of the combatants. He was 
received with the greateft applaufe ; and obtained the 
victory over his rivals, Neftor the fon of Neleus', Cyenus 
fon of Neptune, Polites, Helenus, and Deiphobus, fons of 
Priam. He likewife obtained fome advantage over Hector 
himfelf; which prince, enraged to fee himfelf conquered 
by an unknown ftranger, purfued him clofely ; and Paris 
muft have fallen a viCtim to his brother’s rage, had lie not 
fled to the attar of Jupiter. This facred retreat preferved 
his life ; and Caffandra, the daughter of Priam, (truck with 
the fimilarity of the features of Paris with thole of her 
brothers, enquired his birth and age. From thefe cir- 
cumftances Ihe foon difeovered that he was her brother, 
and as fuch Ihe introduced him to her father a-nd to her 
brothers. Priam acknowledged Paris as his fon, forgetful 
of the alarming dreams which had caufed him to meditate 
his death ; and all jealoufy ceafed among the brothers. 
Paris did not long fuft’er himfelf to remain inactive ; he 
equipped a fleet, as if willing to redeem Helione, his 
father’s filler, whom Hercules had carried away, and 
obliged to marry Telamon the fon of FEacus. This w'as 
the pretended motive of his voyage, but the caufes were 
far different. Paris remembered that he was to be the 
hulbandof the faireft of women ; and, if he had been led to 
form thofe expectations while he was an obfeure Ihepherd 
of Ida, he had now every plaulible reafon to fee them 
realized, lince he was the acknowledged fon of the king 
of Troy. Helen was the faireft woman of the age, and 
Venus had promifed her to him. On thefe grounds, there¬ 
fore, he went to Sparta, the refidence of Helen, who had 
married Menelaus. He was received with great refpeCt; 
but he abufed the hofpitality of Menelaus, and, while the 
hulband was abfent in Crete, Paris perfuaded Helen to 
elope with him, and to fly to Afia. Helen confented; 
and Priam received her into his palace without difficulty, 
as his filler was then detained in a foreign country, and 
as he wilfled to Ihow himfelf as holtile as poflible to the 
Greeks. This affair was foon productive of ferious con- 
fequences. When Menelaus had married Helen, all her 
fuitors had bound themfelves by a folemn oath to proteCl 
her perfon ; and therefore the inj ured hulband reminded 
them of their engagements, and called upon them to re¬ 
cover her. Upon this, all Greece took up arms in the 
caufe of Menelaus; Agamemnon was chofen general of 
all the combined forces, and a regular war was begun. 
Paris, meanwhile, who had refufed Helen to the petitions 
and embaflies of the Greeks, armed himfelf, with his bro¬ 
thers and fubjeCts, to oppofe the enemy ; but the fuccefs 
of the war was neither hindered nor accelerated by his 
means. 
