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PI I/LAG E, /. [French.] Plunder; fomething got by 
plundering or pilling : 
Others, like foldiers. 
Make boot upon the furnmer’s velvet buds; 
Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Slmkefp. 
The aft of plundering.—Thy fons make pillage of her 
chaflity. Shakefpeare. 
Pillage, among builders, is fometimes ufed for a 
fquare pillar, Handing behind a column to bear up the 
arches ; having a round bafe and capital, as a pillar has. 
To PIL'LAGE, v.a. To plunder; to fpoil.—The con- 
ful Mummius, after having beaten their army, took, 
pillaged, and burnt, their city. Arbuthwt on Coins. 
PIL'LAGE BA'Y, a bay on the fouth coalt of Labra¬ 
dor. Lat. 50. 17. N. Ion. 62. 58. W. 
PIL'LAGER, /• A plunderer; a fpoiler : 
He left the pillagers, to rapine bred, 
Without controu 1 to ftrip and fpoil the dead. Dryden. 
PIL'LAR,/. [pilier, Fr. pilar, Spanifh ; pilajlro, Italian; 
piler, WelOi and Armoric.] A column.— Pillars or co¬ 
lumns, I could diftinguifh into fimple and compounded. 
WottoiL on Architecture. 
The palace built by Picus vaft and proud, 
Supported by a hundred pillars Hood. Dryden. 
A fupporter ; a maintainer: 
I charge you by the law, 
Whereof you are a well-deferving pillar, 
Proceed to judgment. Shakefpeare’s Merck, of Ven. 
It was cuftomary among the ancients, particularly 
among the Romans, to ereft public buildings, fuch as 
arches and pillars, for the reward and encouragement of 
noble enterprifes. Thefe marks wereconferred upon fuch 
eminent perfons as had either won a viftory of extraor¬ 
dinary confequence abroad, or had refcued the common¬ 
wealth from any confiderabie danger at home. The 
greatefl aftions of the heroes they flood to honour, wxre 
curioufly expreffed on the Tides, and the whole proceffion 
of a triumph was fometimes cut out. The arches built 
by Romulus were only of brick; thole of Camillas of 
plain fquare ftone; but thofe of Ctefar, Drufus, TitOs, 
Trajan, Gordian, &c. were entirely marble. As to 
their figure, they were at firft femicircular, whence pro¬ 
bably they took their names. Afterwards they were 
built four fquare, with a fpacious arched gate in the 
middle, and little ones on each fide. Upon the vaulted 
part of the middle gate hung little winged images, repre¬ 
senting viftory, with crowns in their hands, which, when 
they were let down, they put upon the conqueror’s head 
as he palled under the triumph. Fabricii Roma, cap. 15. 
The pillars of the emperors Trajan and Antoninus, 
have been extremely admired for their beauty and curious 
work. We find them particularly defcribed in Kennet’s 
Roman Antiquities. 
The former was let up in the middle of Trajan’s Forum, 
being compofed of twenty-four great blocks of marble, 
but fo curioufly cemented, as to leem one entire natural 
Itone. The height was 144 feet, according to Eutropius, 
though Martian feems to make it but 128. It is 
afcended by 185 winding flairs, and has 40 little windows 
for the admiffion of light. The whole pillar is incrufted 
with marble, in which are expreffed all the noble afts of 
the emperor, and particularly the Decian war. It is 
decorated with figures of forts, bulwarks, bridges, Ihips, 
&c. and all manner of arms, as fliields, helmets, targets, 
fwords, fpears, daggers, belts, See. together with the 
feveral offices and employments of the foldiers; feme 
digging trenches, fome meafuring out a place for the 
tents, and others making a triumphal proceffion; (Fabri- 
cius, cap. 7.) But the nobleft ornament of this pillar, 
was the ftatue of Trajan on the top, of a gigantic bignefs, 
being no lefs than ao feet high. He was reprefented in 
a coat of armour proper to the general, holding in his 
left hand a feeptre, in his right a hollow globe of gold, 
in which his own allies were depofited after his death. 
The column or pillar of Antoninus was raifed in imi¬ 
tation of this, which it exceeded only in one refpeft, that 
it was 176 feet high; (Martian, lib. vi. cap. 13.) for the 
work was much inferior to the former, as being under¬ 
taken in the declining age of the empire. The afeent on 
the infide was 106 flairs, and the windows on the fides 56. 
The fculpture and the other ornaments were of the fame 
nature as thofe of the firft ; and on the top flood a colof- 
fus of the emperor, naked, as appears from fome of his 
coins. 
Both thefe columns are ftill (landing at Rome, the 
former almoft entire. But Pope Sixtus I. inftead of the 
two ftatues of the emperors, let up St. Peter’s on the 
column of Trajan, and St. Paul's on that of Antoninus. 
Among the columns av)d pillars, we mull not pafs by 
the Milliarium aureum, a gilded pillar in the forum, 
erefted by Auguflus Caefar, at which all the highways 
of Itaiy met, and were concluded. (Martian, lib. iii. cap. 
18.) From this they counted their miles, at the end of 
every mile fetting up a ftone: whence came the phrafe 
Primus ab urbe lapis, and the like. This pillar, as Mr. 
Lafcelles informs us, is Hill to be been. 
Pompey's Pillar, fo famous in hiflory, is alfo ftill to be 
feen in Egypt, notwithftanding the incurfions of .the 
French, and the fubfequent viftory of the Englifli in that 
country. Had Bonaparte kept pofleffion, he would pro¬ 
bably have imitated what Paulus JEmilius did at Delphi, 
and ordered his own ftatue to be placed upon it. The 
pillar at Delphi was fquare, and of white marble, and on 
it was to have been placed a golden ftatue of Perfeus. 
When the latter was conquered, AJmilius obferved, that 
the conquered ought to give way to the conqueror. See 
the article Egypt. 
PIL'LAR (Cape), a cape at the weftern entrance of the 
flraits of Magellan, which is known by a large gap upon 
the top ; and, when it bears weft-fouth-vveft, an ifland ap¬ 
pears off it which has an appearance lomewhat like a hay- 
flack, and about which lie feveral rocks. The flrait to 
the eaflward of the Cape is between (even and eight 
leagues over; the land on each fide is of a moderate 
height, but it is lowefl on the north fliore, the fouth 
fhore being much the bolded, though both are craggy 
and broken. Weftminfler Ifland is nearer to the north 
than the fouth fhore, and by the compafs lies north-eafl 
from Cape Pillar. Lat. 52. 45. S. Ion. 75. io. W. 
PIL'LARED, adj. Supported by columns : 
If this fail. 
The pillar’d firmament is rottennefs, 
And earth’s bafe built on Hubble. Milton's Comas. 
A pillar’d fliade 
High overarch’d, and echoing walks between. 
Miltons P. L. 
Having the form of a column.—Th’ infuriate bill (hoots 
forth the pillar'd flame. Thomfon. 
PILLAU', f. A difh of rice dreffed after the manner of 
the Turks. 
PILLAU', a feaport town of Pruffia, in the province 
of Samland, fuuated on a tongue of land that projefts 
into the Baltic, at the entrance of the Frifch Haft, with 
a good harbour; well fortified, and conlidered as the 
bulwark and key of the kingdom. The flree-ts are 
broad, and run in a flraight line, and thehoufesare built 
and furnifhed in the Dutch tafle. Veffels of great bur¬ 
dens are cleared, and take in their lading here; for the 
Frifch Haff has not a fufficient depth cf water to carry 
them up to Konigfberg. The fort is nearly a regular pen¬ 
tagon. The baftions make a grand appearance; and 
all the buildings belonging to the fortifications are flrong, 
handfome, and regular. It has alfo a magazine for mili¬ 
tary (lores. Below the gate of the caflle is a ftone equef- 
trian ftatue of Frederic William the Great ; and over the 
gate a watch-tower is erefted, where a centinel ftands 
