545 
P I T 
nefs of his judgment, and his political wifdom. He had 
a moft intimate acquaintance with every thing relative to 
French hiltory and antiquities; and a profound know¬ 
ledge of the civil law, in which he was fcarcely inferior 
to Cujas himfelf, under whom, in his youth, he had 
ftudied. The works of this gentleman are, i.TraitCdes 
Libertes de 1 ’Eglife Gallicane, in four vols. folio, and 
which is thought to be the bafis of all that has been writ¬ 
ten on the fame fubjeCL 2. A Commentary on the 
Cuftoms of Troyes, and other tra&s on civil and canon¬ 
ical jurifprudence. 3. He publifhed, in 1609, a large 
collection of “ Opufcules j” alfo editions of feveral mo¬ 
numents of antiquity, chiefly relating to the hiftory of 
France. He had collected a curious and very valuable 
library, rich in MSS. which by his will he directed to be 
fold only to a frngle purchafer acquainted with its value ; 
this precaution, however, did not prevent its difperfion. 
By his deep and extenfive erudition he acquired the title 
of the French Varro, and his name was not lefs celebrated 
abroad than in his own country. Gen. Biop;. 
PITHOU' (Francis), brother of the preceding, born 
in 1544, was alfo brought up to the law, and exercifed 
the office of attorney-general to the chamber of juftice 
eftabliffied by Henry IV. to check the frauds of the finan¬ 
ciers. He alfo affifted at the conferences of Fontainebleau, 
and was one of the commiffioners for regulating the 
boundaries between France and the Low-Countries. Re¬ 
tiring afterwards to a ftudious life, he emulated his bro¬ 
ther in the variety and depth of his learned refearches. 
He was a man of Angular virtue and modefty, and died 
univerfally regretted in 1621. Francis took a partin 
moft of his brother’s publications, and efpecially contri¬ 
buted to the elucidation of the “Body of Canon Law,” 
printed at Paris in 2 vols. fol. 1687. He alfo publiffied 
feveral works feparately, among which were, 1. La Confe¬ 
rence des Lois Romaines avec cedes de Moyfe. 2. An 
edition of the Salic law, with notes. 3. Traite de la 
Grandeur et Droits du Roi et du Royaume de France. 
4. Obfervationes ad Codicem. He likewife gave an edi¬ 
tion of the Antiqui Rhetores Latini, Par. 1599 ; and made 
the valuable difcovery of the Fables of Phsedrus, which 
he publiffied in conjunction with his brother. The names 
of thefe two brothers are very celebrated among men of 
letters. A full and exaCt catalogue of their feveral pub¬ 
lications is prefixed to their works in Latin, printed in 
1715 . Mover i. 
PITH'Y, adj. Confiding of pith ; abounding with 
pith.'—The pithy fibres brace and ftitch together the lig¬ 
neous in a plant. Grew's Cofmol. Sacra. 
The Herefordian plant that likes 
To approach the quince, and the elder’s pithy ftem. 
Philips. 
Strong; forcible.; energetic.—In all thefe, Goodman 
FaCt was very ffiort, but pithy; for he was a plain home- 
fpun man. Addifon. 
I mull begin with rudiments of art, 
More pleafant, pithy, and effectual, 
Than hath been taught by any. Shakefpeare. 
Many rare pithy faws concerning 
The worth of aftrologic learning. Hudibras. 
PI'THYS, a nymph beloved by Pan. Boreas was alfo 
fond of her, but ffie (lighted his addrefles; upon which 
he daffied her againft a rock, and ffie was changed into a 
pine-tree. 
PITHYU'SA, /. in botany. See Euphorbia. 
PI'TI, a town of Thibet: 204 miles fouth of Latac. 
PIT'IABLE, adj. [from pity.'] Deferving pity.—The 
pitiable perfons relieved, are conftantly under your eye. 
Atterbury. 
PIT'IABLENESS, f. State of deferving pity.—For the 
pitiablenefs of his ignorance, and unwilled miftake, fo long 
as they lafted, his negleCt thereof may be excufed and 
connived at. Kettlewell. 
YOL. XX. No. 1389. 
P I T 
PIT'IEDLY, adv. In a fituation to be pitied.— They 
are not alone that have books and company within their 
own walls. He is properly and pitiedly to be counted 
alone, that is illiterate, and inactively lies hamletted in 
fome untravelled village of the duller country. Feltham's 
Ref. ii. 49. 
PIT'IES,/. The only money of the natives of the ids 
of Java, which is a fmall coin containing four parts of 
lead and one of tin; twenty-five of thefe pafs for two 
duyts, each duyt being a fourth part of the Dutch cop¬ 
per coin called the ftiver. 
PIT'IFUL, adj. Tender; compaffionate.—The Lord is 
full of compaffion and mercy, long-fuffering, and very 
pitiful, and forgiveth fins. Ecclus. ii. 2. 
Would my heart were flint, like Edward’s, 
Or Edward’s foft and pitiful like mine. Shakefpeare. 
Melancholy; moving compaffion.—Some who have not 
deferved judgment of death, have been, for their good’s 
fake, caught up and carried ftraight to the bough ; a 
thing indeed very pitiful and horrible. Spenferon Ireland. 
Strangely-vifited people, 
All fwoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, 
The meredefpair of furgery, he cures. Shakefpeare. 
Will he his pitiful complaints renew ? 
For freedom with afteCted language fue ? Sandys. 
Paltry; contemptible; defpicable.—Sin can 'pleafe no 
longer than for that pitiful (pace of time while it is com¬ 
mitting^ and furely the prefent pleafure of a finful aft is 
a poor countervail for the bitternefs which begins where 
the aCfion ends, and lafts for ever. South. 
PIT'IFULLY, adv. With pity; with compaffion.— 
Pitifully behold the forrows of our hearts. Comm. Prayer. 
—'Mournfully; in a manner that moves compaffion.— 
Some of the philofophers doubt whether there were any 
fuch thing as fenfe of pain; and yet, when any great evil 
has been upon them, they would figh and groan as piti¬ 
fully as other men. Tillotfon. 
He beat him moft pitifully; nay, 
He beat him moft unpitifully. Shakefpeare. 
Contemptibly; defpicably.—Thofe men who gave them- 
felves airs of bravery on reflecting upon the lalt fcenes of 
others, may behave the moft pitifully in their own. Rich- 
ardjbn's Clariffa. 
PITI'FULNESS,/. Tendernefs; mercy; compaffion. 
—Bafilius, giving the infinite terms of praifes to Zelmane’s 
valour in conquering, and pitifulnefs in pardoning, com¬ 
manded no more words to be made of it. Sidney. —Def- 
picablenefs; contemptiblenefs. 
PITIGLIA'NO, a town and fortrefs of Etruria : t wen¬ 
ty-three miles eaft-north-eaft of Orbitello.. 
PITIHEM'PO, a mountain of Afia, which bounds 
Thibet to the north-weft. 
PIT'ILESS, adj. Wanting pity ; wanting compaffion ; 
mercilefs.—All tor their own ends, hard-hearted, merci- 
lefs, pitilejs; and, to benefit themfelves, they care not 
what mifchief they procure to others. Burton’s Anat. 
of Mel. 
Upon my livid lips beftow a kifs, 
Nor fear your kiftes can reftore my breath; 
Even you are not more pitilejs than death. Bryden. 
Unpitied : 
But they do peri (h pitilefs that wear, 
Through (loth, away : 
So I do perilh pitilejs, through fear. Davies. 
PJT'ILESSLY, adv. Without mercy. Sherwood. 
PIT'ILESSNESS, f. Unmercifulnels. 
PITI'NUM, in ancient geography, a town of Italy, in 
the territory called by Pliny Pitinas Ager, on the other 
fide of the Apennines, and watered by the river Novanus. 
Ptolemy affigns this town to the Umbrians who inhabited 
the territory north of the Tufcans. 
6 Z PITIS'CUS 
