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writer in hiftory and politics, was born in 1540. He 
fucceeded Contarini as hiftoriographer of the republic in 
1579, and afterwards filled various offices in the (late. 
He was employed in feveral embaflies, was made gover¬ 
nor of Brefcia, and finally was elected a procurator of St. 
Mark. With a high charafter for wifdom, integrity, 
and zeal for the public good, he died in 1598, at the age 
of fifty-eight. The works of this writer are, 1. A Funeral 
Oration to the Praife of thofe who fell in the Battle of 
Curzolari in 1571. 2. Della Perfezior.e della Vita Poli- 
tica, 1582, 4to. 3. Difcorli Politici, publifhed by his 
fons in 1599, 4to. 4. A Hiftory of Venice from 1513 to 
1551, with the Addition of the War of Cyprus in 1570- 
72, 4to. 1605. This work is written in Italian; and is 
accounted, for the exaftnefs and fkill of the narrative, 
and the judicioufnefs of the remarks, one of the belt 
works of that clafs in the language. He had begun to 
write it in Latin, in imitation of the ftyle of Salluft, and 
5 s faid to have finifhed four books in that tongue. A 
new edition of it was given by Apoflolo Zeno in 1703. 
PARU'TA (Filippo), a learned antiquarian, was a 
noble of Palermo, and fecretary to the fenateof that city, 
where he died in 1629. He wrote feveral works ; but is 
principally known by his “ Sicilia defcritta con Medag- 
lie,” publifhed in 1612 at Palermo. This work, after¬ 
wards augmented by Leonardo Agoftini, was printed at 
Rome in 1649, and at Lyons in 1697. Havercamp pub¬ 
lifhed a Latin edition of it in three volumes, folio, 1723, 
which makes part of the Italian Antiquities of Grrevius 
and Burmann. Gen. Biog. 
PAR'WAN, a town of Candahar: fixty miles north- 
weft of Cabul. 
PARWI'DA, a town of Sweden, in Tavaftland : forty- 
five miles north-north-eaft of Jamfio. 
PAR'WIS, a town of the county of Tyrol: eighteen 
miles weft-north-weft of Innfpruck. 
PAR'XU, [ in botany. See Cestrum. 
PA'RYS, a mountain of North-Wales, in the ifland of 
Anglefea, about nine miles in length, and half as much 
in breadth; apparently wild, wafte, and barren in the 
extreme, but abounding in the richeft mines of copper 
and lead ore, in the latter of which is found a mixture of 
filver; the bed of copper-ore is fuppofed to be thelargeft 
known in the world. It is two miles fiouth-eaft of 
Amlwch. 
PARYSA'TIS, a Perfian princefs, wife of Darius 
Ochus, by whom Hie had Artaxerxes Memnon, and 
Cyrus the younger. She was fo extremely partial to her 
younger fon, that Hie committed the greateft cruelties to 
encourage his ambition, and flie fupported him with all 
her intereft in his rebellion againft his brother Memnon. 
The death of Cyrus, at the battle of Cunaxa, was re¬ 
venged with the groffeft barbarity ; and Paryfatis facri- 
ficed to her refentment all fuch as fhe found concerned 
in his fall. She alfo poifoned Statira the wife of her fon 
Artaxerxes; and ordered one of the eunuchs of the court 
to be flead alive, and his (kin to be ftretched on two 
poles before her eyes, becaufe he had, by order of the 
king, cut ofF the hand and the head of Cyrus. Thefe 
cruelties offended Artaxerxes, and he ordered his mother 
to be confined in Babylon; but they were foon after re¬ 
conciled, and Paryfatis regained all her power and in¬ 
fluence till the time of her death. Plut. in Art. 
PARZANE'GA, a town of Italy, in the department 
of the Serio : fifteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Bergamo. 
PAS,/. [French.] Precedence; right of going fore- 
moft.—In her poor circumftances, the ftill preferved the 
mien of a gentlewoman ; when flie came into any full 
affembly, flie "would not yield the pas to the belt of them. 
Arbuthnot. 
PAS, a town of Pruflia, in Bartenland, ten miles 
north-eaft of Raftenburgh. 
PAS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Straits of Calais: thirteen miles fouth-weft of Arras, and 
fix 6aft of Dourlens. 
PAS 
PAS. See Paszberg. 
PAS (Manaffes de), Marquis de Feuquieres, was tbs 
pofthumous fon of Francis de Pas, who was ftain at the 
battle of Ivry. He was born at Sauinur in 1590, and dif- 
tinguilhed himfelf as an able general and negociator. 
At the fiege of Rochelle he was taken prifoner, was con¬ 
tinued in confinement nine months, and was ranfomed 
in exchange for general Ekenfort, two colonels, and 
18,000 crowns. The reduction of the city of Rochelle 
has been attributed chiefly to him. He was afterwards 
ambaffador to the court of Sweden and Germany, where 
he difplayed great talents. In 1635 he commanded the 
army in conjunftion with the duke of Saxe-Weimar. He 
died in 1640. His Negociationsin Germany were printed 
in 1753, in 3 vols. i2ino. 
PAS (Anthony de), Marquis de Feuquieres, grand- 
fon of the above, was one of the greateft generals of his 
time. He (ignalized himfelf at the battle of Stafarde, at 
the taking of Suza, and other ftrong places in Italy; but 
he was fo fevere a difciplinarian, that it was a common 
faying, that De Pas muft be the braveft man in the world, 
fince he flept every night in the midftof a hundred thou- 
fand enemies. He was governor of Verdun ; and in 1689 
he was made, on account of his great talents, a field- 
marfhal. He died in January 17x1, aged 63. His Me¬ 
moirs were printed in 4 vols. nmo. Moreri. 
PAS de C ALAI'S. See Straits of Calais. 
PAS-EP-A', the chief of the Lamas, particularly emi¬ 
nent for having invented charaHers for the Moguls. He 
was much efteemed by the Chinefe, though the literati 
exclaimed againft the manner in which the people demon- 
ftrated their affeftion. There is ftill at Pekin a nij/an, or 
temple, built in honour of Paf-ep-a in the time of the 
Mogul emperors. He died in 1279. Encij. Brit. 
PA'S A, or FE'SA, a town of Perfia, in the province 
ofFarfiftan: fixty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Schiras, and 
235 fouth-fouth-eaft of Ifpahan. Lat. 29. 10. N. Lon. 
53.40. E. 
PASAGIN'IANS, or Circumcised, in ecclefiaftical 
hiftory, a Angular fe<!ft, which fprung up in Lombardy 
towards the clofe of the 12th century. This feft, like 
feveral others that fubfifted about the fame time, had the 
utmoft averfion to the dominion and difcipline of the 
church of Rome; but it was diftinguilhed, at the fame 
time, by two religious tenets that were peculiar to itfelf. 
The firft was a notion, that the obfervance of .the law of 
Mofes, in every thing except the offering of lacrifices, 
was obligatory upon Chriftians ; in confequence of which 
its followers were circumcifed, abftained from thofe 
meats the ufe of which was prohibited under the Mofaic 
economy, and celebrated the Jewifh fabbath. The fecond 
point that diftinguilhed this fe£l was advanced in oppo- 
fition to the doftrine of three perfons in the divine na¬ 
ture ; for the Palaginians maintained that Chrift was no 
more than the “ firft and pureftxreature of God.” Nor 
will their adoption of this opinion feem very furprifing, 
if we confider the prodigious number of Arians that were 
fcattered throughout Italy long before that period. 
PASA'KA, Buxadevar, or Buxaduar, a town of 
Afia, in the country of Bootan: fixty miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Taffafudon. Lat. 26. 48. N. Lon. 89. 30. E. 
PASAKAM'ENITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the cir¬ 
cle of Chrudim : eight miles weft-north-weft of Po- 
litzka. 
PASAL', a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fonia. 
Lat. 12.40. N. Ion. 15. 36. W. 
PASAN'GA, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the weft coaft of Sumatra. Lat. 5. 10. S. 
PASA'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic : 
twenty-one miles weft of Tiagar. 
PASAR'GADA, in ancient geography, a town of 
Alia, in Perfia. The name fignifies the Camp of the 
Perfians; and the town was founded by Cyrus on the 
very fpot where he had conquered Aftyages. The kings 
of Perfia were always crowned there; and the Palargadie 
were 
