th all their gifts, ... to the unwiser son
Of Japhet brought by Herm[^e]s, she ensnared
Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged
On him [_Prom[=e]theus_] who had stole Jove's ... fire.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iv. 714, etc. (1665).

[Asterism] "Unwiser son" is a Latinism, and means "not so wise as he
should have been;" so _audacior_, _timidior_, _vehementior_,
_iracundior_, etc.

=Pandos'to=, or _The Triumph of Time_, a tale by Robert Greene (1588), the
quarry of the plot of _The Winter's Tale_ by Shakespeare.

=Panel= (_The_), by J. Kemble, is a modified version of Bickerstaff's
comedy _'Tis Well 'tis no Worse_. It contains the popular quotation:

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love;
But why do you kick me downstairs?

=Pangloss= (_Dr. Peter_), an LL.D. and A.S.S. He began life as a
muffin-maker in Milk Alley. Daniel Dowlas, when he was raised from the
chandler's shop in Gosport to the peerage, employed the doctor "to larn
him to talk English;" and subsequently made him tutor to his son Dick,
with a salary of [pounds]300 a year. Dr. Pangloss was a literary prig of
ponderous pomposity. He talked of a "locomotive morning," of one's
"sponsorial and patronymic appellations," and so on; was especially fond
of quotations, to all of which he assigned the author, as "Lend me your
ears. Shakespeare. Hem!" or "_Verbum sat._ Horace. Hem!" He also
indulged in an affected "He! he!"--G. Colman, _The Heir-at-Law_ (1797).

A.S.S. stands for _Artium Societatis Socius_ ("Fellow of the Society of
Arts").

_Pangloss_, an optimist philosopher. (The word means "All
Tongue.")--Voltaire, _Candide_.

=Panjam=, a male idol of the Oroungou tribes of Africa; his wife is
Al[=e]ka, and his priests are called _panjans_. Panjam is the special
protector of kings and governments.

=Panjandrum= (_The Grand_), and village potentate or Brummagem magnate.
The word occurs in S. Foote's farrago of nonsense, which he wrote to
test the memory of old Macklin, who said in a lecture "he had brought
his own memory to such perfection that he could learn anything by rote
on once hearing it."

He was the Great Panjandrum of the place.--Percy Fitzgerald.

[Asterism] The squire of a village is the Grand Panjandrum, and the
small gentry the Picninnies, Joblillies, and Garyulies.

Foote's nonsense lines are these:

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple
pie; and at t