in love with each other, not knowing their
relationship; but when Mahomet laid siege to Mecca, Zaphna was appointed
to assassinate Alcanor, and was himself afterwards killed by poison.
Mahomet then proposed marriage to Palmira, but to prevent such an
alliance, she killed herself.--James Miller, _Mahomet, the Impostor_
(1740).

=Pal'myrene= (_The_), Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, who claimed the title of
"Queen of the East." She was defeated by Aurelian, and taken prisoner
(A.D. 273). Longinus lived at her court, and was put to death on the
capture of Zenobia.

The Palmyrene that fought Aurelian.

Tennyson, _The Princess_, ii. (1847).

=Pal'omides= (_Sir_), son and heir of Sir Astlabor. His brothers were Sir
Safire and Sir Segwar'id[^e]s. He is always called the Saracen, meaning
"unchristened." Next to the three great knights (Sir Launcelot, Sir
Tristram, and Sir Lamorake), he was the strongest and bravest of the
fellowship of the Round Table. Like Sir Tristram, he was in love with La
Belle Isond, wife of King Mark, of Cornwall; but the lady favored the
love of Sir Tristram, and only despised that of the Saracen knight.
After his combat with Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides consented to be
baptized by the bishop of Carlisle (pt. iii. 28).

He was well made, cleanly and bigly, and neither too young nor too
old. And though he was not christened, yet he believed in the best
manners, and was faithful and true of his promise, and also well
conditioned. He made a vow that he would never be christened unto
the time that he achieved the beast Glatisaint.... And also he
avowed never to take full christendom unto the time that he had
done seven battles within the lists.--Sir T. Malory, _History of
Prince Arthur_, ii. 149 (1470).

=Pam=, Henry John Temple, viscount Palmerston (1784-1865).

=Pam'ela.= Lady Edward Fitzgerald is so called (*-1831).

_Pam'ela_ [ANDREWS], a simple, unsophisticated country girl, the
daughter of two aged parents, and maid-servant of a rich young squire,
called B, who tries to seduce her. She resists every temptation, and at
length marries the young squire, and reforms him. Pamela is very pure
and modest, bears her afflictions with much meekness, and is a model of
maidenly prudence and rectitude. The story is told in a series of
letters which Pamela sends to her parents.--S. Richardson, _Pamela_, or
_Virtue Rewarded_ (1740).

The pure and modes