ing of Macedon, and Alexander, out of regard to the artist, gave
her to him for a wife. Apell[^e]s selected for his "Venus Rising from the
Sea" (usually called "Venus Anadyom[)e]n[^e]") this beautiful Athenian
woman, together with Phryn[^e], another courtezan.

[Asterism] Phryn[^e] was also the academy figure for the "Cnidian Venus"
of Praxit[)e]l[^e]s.

=Pancks=, a quick, short, eager, dark man, with too much "way." He dressed
in black and rusty iron grey; had jet-black beads for eyes, a scrubby
little black chin, wiry black hair striking out from his head in prongs
like hair-pins, and a complexion that was very dingy by nature, or very
dirty by art, or a compound of both. He had dirty hands, and dirty,
broken nails, and looked as if he had been in the coals. He snorted and
sniffed, and puffed and blew, and was generally in a perspiration. It
was Mr. Pancks who "moled out" the secret that Mr. Dorrit, imprisoned
for debt in the Marshalsea prison, was heir-at-law to a great estate,
which had long lain unclaimed, and was extremely rich (ch. xxxv.). Mr.
Pancks also induced Clennam to invest in Merdle's bank shares, and
demonstrated by figures the profit he would realize; but the bank being
a bubble the shares were worthless.--C. Dickens, _Little Dorrit_
(1857).

=Pancrace=, a doctor of the Aristotelian school. He maintained that it
was improper to speak of the "_form_ of a hat," because form "est la
disposition ext['e]rieure des corps qui sont anim['e]s," and therefore
we should say the "_figure_ of a hat," because figure "est la
disposition ext['e]rieure des corps qui sont inanim['e]s;" and because
his adversary could not agree, he called him "un ignorant, un
ignorantissime, ignorantifiant, et ignorantifi[`e]"[TN-62] (sc.
viii.).--Moli[`e]re, _Le Mariage Forc['e]_ (1664).

=Pancras= (_The earl of_), one of the skillful companions of Barlow, the
famous archer; another was called the "Marquis of Islington;" while
Barlow himself was mirthfully created by Henry VIII., "Duke of
Shoreditch."

_Pancras_ (_St._), patron saint of children, martyred by Diocletian at
the age of 14 (A.D. 304).

=Pan'darus=, the Lycian, one of the allies of Priam in the Trojan war. He
is drawn under two widely different characters: In classic story he is
depicted as an admirable archer, slain by Diomed, and honored as a
hero-god in his own country; but in mediaeval romance he is represented
as a despicable pimp, insomuch that the word _