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Grecian army, but as a warrior, attended by his brother 
Machaon, in thirty (hips, with foldiers from CEchalia, 
Ithome, and Trica. He appears to have been the younger 
brother, and to have been on the whole lefs diftinguifhed 
than Machaon ; though, like him, he was married to the 
daughter of a king. On his return from the fiege of Troy, 
he was (hipwrecked on the coaft of Caria, where he was 
hofpitably received by a fhepherd, who, having learned 
that he was a phyfician, took him to king Damasthus, 
whofe daughter had accidentally fallen from the top of a 
houfe. Podalirius bled her in both arms, after which (lie 
recovered, which fo delighted the king, that he gave him 
his daughter in marriage, with the Cherfones as a portion. 
Here Podalirius built two cities, the one of which he 
called Syrnum, from his wife, Syrna, and the other By- 
^baffus, which was the name of the fhepherd who had re¬ 
ceived him when fhipwrecked. Among other children, 
he had a fon, called Hippolochus, from w hom, in a direft 
line, Hippocrates conlidered himfelf as defcended. The 
Carians, after his death, built him a temple, and paid 
him divine honours. 
PODALYR'IA, f. in botany. SeeSoPHORA. 
PODA'NA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Con- 
dapilly : eight miles from Mafulipatam. 
PODANG-ME W', a large and populous city of the 
Birman empire, not far from the city of Prome. 
PODAR'GE, one of the Harpies, mother of tu'oof the 
horfes of Achilles, by the Zephyrs. The word intimates 
rite fwiftnefs of her feet. 
POD'DER, /. A gatherer of peafecods, beans, and other 
pulfe. 
PO'DEM, a village of Trebifond, in Afiatic Turkey: 
thirty miles eaft of Trebifond. 
PODEM'NO, a village of Tobollk, in Afiatic Ruflia : 
forty-four miles eaft of Kemlkoi. 
PODEN'DA, a village of Afia Minor, at the junbfion 
of the Sihoun with the Adana: thirty-three miles north 
of Adana. 
PO'DENSAC, a town of France, fituated on the river 
Gironde. Population 1400. It is eighteen miles fouth- 
eaft of Bourdeaux. 
PODENSEE', a town of Auftria : eight miles weft of 
Tulin. 
PODEN'TES, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira : ten miles north-eaft of Coimbra. 
PODENZA'NA, a town of the duchy of Piacenza, or 
Placentia : five miles fouth of Piacenza. 
PODERA'DOS, in ancient geography, an epifcopal 
towm of Phoenicia, the epilcopate being dependent on 
Thefus, the fecond metropolis of the patriarchate of 
Antioch. 
POD'ERIS, f [from the Gr. wh?, foot, and ccya, to 
adopt.] In antiquity, a robe hanging down to the feet; 
but it is chiefly ufed to exprefs a linen garment, a furplice, 
a fhirt. The Jewifh priefis were covered with this kind 
of long furplices during the time of their attendance in 
the temple ; and this was the proper habit of their order. 
PODES'TA,/! [Italian.] A magiftrate, orofficerofjuftice 
and policy, in a tree city ; particularly in Italy, and chiefly 
applied to certain magiftrates of Venice and Genoa, whofe 
funblion was to adminifter juftice in thofe republics. 
The podefta in Venice correfponded to the prator in 
ancient Rome, though appeals lay from his decifions. 
PODES'TA (Andrea), a painter, was born at Genoa in 
1628, and became the ditciple of Andrea Ferrari. Strutt 
fays, “ that as a painter it does not appear that he greatly 
diftinguifhed himfelf; but feveral fpirited and mafterly 
etchings, which he produced, prove him to have been a 
very fkilful artift. The heads of his figures are finely 
charadferized; and the other extremities a re well exprefled.” 
Among the be ft of Podefta’s prints are the following: 
Four Bacchanaliah fuhjebis, in large folio, after Titian, 
one of which is from the celebrated pidiure of Bacchus 
leaping from his Car to greet Ariadna, which was lately 
in the collediion of the earl of Kinnaird, and from which 
Mr. Bone executed a moll exquilite copy in enamel; 
Love cultivating the Arts, an allegorical print in folio, 
dedicated to Guido ; and a pair from the life of St. Diego, 
after Caracci, alfo in folio. 
PODESTA'NA, a town of Italy, in the Veronefe: , 
fifteen miles north of Verona. 
PO'DEX, f. in anatomy, &c. the anus, or fundament. 
PODGE, f A puddle; a plafh. Not vj'ed. 
POD'GINOCK, a town of Ruflia, in the province of 
Ufting: 100 miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Uft Sifolfk. 
PODGOROD'KOI, a fortrefs of Afiatic Ruflia, in the 
government of Oufa, on the Oural: ninety-two miles eaft 
of Orenbourg. 
PODGOR'ZA, a town of the Auftrian States, in Gali¬ 
cia, on the Viftula, oppofite to Cracow. It contains 4000 
inhabitants, chiefly weavers and mechanics. Its trade 
was formerly confiderable, and moft of the merchants of 
Warfaw had correfpondents here ; but, after this part of 
Poland had become fubjedl to Auftria, its bufinefs de¬ 
clined, though the government made it one of the princi¬ 
pal depots of the fait dug from the mines of Wieliczka. 
In 1815, when the powers of Europe agreed to make 
Cracow a free city, the Auftrian government extended 
the fame privileges to Podgorza. 
PODGUR'ZE, or Podgarze, a fmall river of Poland, 
which forms the boundary between Auftrian Galicia and 
Rufliun Poland, after which it flows into the Dniefter. 
PODHOR'ZE, a river of Auftrian Poland, which forms 
part of the boundary between Auftrian and Ruffian Po¬ 
land, and falls into the Dniefter. 
PO'DICEPS, f. in ornithology, a name given by many 
to the feveral kinds of Colymbi, or divers, which are 
alfo called in Englifh arfe-foots, from their legs being 
placed very backward on their bodies, by which means 
they have great advantages in fwimmingand diving. See 
Colymbus podiceps, vol. iv. and Linn. Tranf. vol. iv. 
p. 26,7. 
PO DIEBR AD', a town of the interior of Bohemia, on 
the Elbe: thirty-one miles eaft of Prague. Population 
2400. 
PODILIPKA'NI, a fmall town of European Ruflia, in 
Beflarabia, on the Pruth. 
PODKAM'MEN, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Ga¬ 
licia : fifty-fix miles eaft of Lemberg. 
PODKAM'MEN, a village of Tobolfk, in Afiatic Ruflia,, 
on the Tzulimm. 
PODLA'CHIA, one of the eight palatinates of the new 
kingdom of Poland, bounded on the north and eaft by 
the river Bug, on the fouth by the palatinate of Lublin, 
and on the weft by the Viftula. Its area is 5520 fquare 
miles; its population 438,000. It is entirely level, and 
has a number of marfhy trails and fmall ftreams; but the 
only large rivers are thofe which form its boundaries. It 
refembles the reft of Poland fo much as to require no fepa- 
rate defcription. The chief town is Siedlce. 
Podlachxa was alfo the name of a palatinate in ancient 
Poland, of which the chief town was Bielfk. It was of 
greater extent than the prefent province; and is now in¬ 
corporated with the Ruffian territories. 
PODLUZAC'S, a tribe of Croats, fettled in a fmall 
diftridt in the fouthern extremity of Moravia, between 
the Theya and the March. Of late their numbers have 
confiderably increafed, and they have fpread over a larger 
extent of country. Though furrounded and partly in¬ 
termixed with Germans, they preferve their ancient drefs 
and language. 
PODMASCHESCHNA'IA, a town of Ruflia, in the 
government of Archangel: forty-eight miles fouth-vveft 
of Mezen. 
PO'DOK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw; thirty miles north-weft of Braclavv. 
PO'DOL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Chrudim; 
five miles weft-fouth-weft of Chrudim. 
PODOLE'PIS, f. [fo named by Labillardiere, from the 
Gr. whs, a foot, arid Aswi?, a fcale, in allufion to the nume¬ 
rous fcales which clothe the flower-ftalks.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs lyngenefia, order polygamia fuperflua, 
natural 
