him with an ivory
shoulder, and all his descendants bore this distinctive mark.

N.B.--It will be remembered that Pythag'oras had a _golden thigh_.

Your forehead high,
And smooth as Pelop's shoulder.

John Fletcher, _The Faithful Shepherdess_, ii. 1 (1610).

=Pelos=, father of Physigna'thos, king of the frogs. The word means
"mud."--Parnell, _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_ (about 1712).

=Pembroke= (_The earl of_), uncle to Sir Aymer de Valence.--Sir W. Scott,
_Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.).

_Pembroke_ (_the Rev. Mr._), chaplain at Waverley Honor.--Sir W. Scott,
_Waverley_ (time, George II.).

=Pen=, Philemon Holland, translator-general of the classics. Of him was
the epigram written:

Holland, with his translations doth so fill us,
He will not let _Suetonius_ be _Tranquillus_.

(The point of which is, of course, that the name of the Roman historian
was _C. Suetonius Tranquillus_.)

Many of these translations were written from beginning to end with one
pen, and hence he himself wrote:

With one sole pen I writ this book,
Made of a grey goose-quill;
A pen it was when it I took,
And a pen I leave it still.

=Pendennis= (_Arthur_), pseudonym of W. M. Thackeray in _The Newcomes_
(1854).

_Pendennis_, a novel by Thackeray (1849), in which much of his own
history and experience is recorded with a novelist's license.
_Pendennis_ stands in relation to Thackeray as _David Copperfield_ to
Charles Dickens.

_Arthur Pendennis_, a young man of ardent feelings and lively intellect,
but conceited and selfish. He has a keen sense of honor, and a capacity
for loving, but altogether he is not an attractive character.

_Laura Pendennis._ This is one of the best of Thackeray's characters.

_Major Pendennis_, a tuft-hunter, who fawns on his patrons for the sake
of wedging himself into their society.--_History of Pendennis_,
published originally in monthly parts, beginning in 1849.

=Pendrag'on=, probably a title meaning "chief leader in war." _Dragon_ is
Welsh for a "leader in war," and _pcn_[TN-79] for "head" or "chief." The
title was given to Uther, brother of Constans, and father of Prince
Arthur. Like the word "Pharaoh," it is used as a proper name without the
article.--Geoffrey of Monmouth, _Chron._, vi. (1142).

Once I read,
That stout Pendragon in his litter, sick,
Came to the field, and vanquished his foes.