e the armies of these two puissant monarchs met in array against each
other.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iii. 4 (1605).

=Pentec[^o]te Vivante= (_La_), Cardinal Mezzofanti, who was the master of
fifty or fifty-eight languages (1774-1849).

=Penthe'a=, sister of Ith'ocl[^e]s, betrothed to Or'gilus by the consent
of her father. At the death of her father, Ithocl[^e]s compelled her to
marry Bass'anes, whom she hated, and she starved herself to death.--John
Ford, _The Broken Heart_ (1633).

=Penthesile'a=, queen of the Amazons, slain by Achilles. S. Butler calls
the name "Penthes'il[^e]."

And laid about in fight more busily
Than th' Amazonian dame Penthesile.

S. Butler, _Hudibras_.

=Pen'theus= (3 _syl._), a king of Thebes, who tried to abolish the orgies
of Bacchus, but was driven mad by the offended god. In his madness he
climbed into a tree to witness the rites, and being descried was torn to
pieces by the Bacchantes.

As when wild Pentheus, grown mad with fear,
Whole troops of hellish hags about him spies.

Giles Fletcher, _Christ's Triumph over Death_ (1610).

_Pentheus_ (2 _syl._), a king of Thebes, resisted the introduction of
the worship of Dyoni'sos (_Bacchus_) into his kingdom, in consequence
of which the Bacchantes pulled his palace to the ground, and Pentheus,
driven from the throne, was torn to pieces on Mount Cithaeron by his own
mother and her two sisters.

He the fate [_may sing_]
Of sober Pentheus.

Akenside, _Hymn to the Naiads_ (1767).

=Pentweazel= (_Alderman_), a rich city merchant of Blowbladder Street. He
is wholly submissive to his wife, whom he always addresses as "Chuck."

_Mrs. Pentweazel_, the alderman's wife, very ignorant, very vain, and
very conceitedly humble. She was a Griskin by birth, and "all her family
by the mother's side were famous for their eyes." She had an aunt among
the beauties of Windsor, "a perdigious fine woman. She had but one eye,
but that was a piercer, and got her three husbands. We was called the
gimlet family." Mrs. Pentweazel says her first likeness was done after
"Venus de Medicis, the sister of Mary de Medicis."

_Sukey Pentweazel_, daughter of the alderman, recently married to Mr.
Deputy Dripping, of Candlewick Yard.

_Carel Pentweazel_, a schoolboy, who had been under Dr. Jerks, near
Doncaster, for two years and a quarter, and had learnt all _As in
Praesenti_ by heart. The terms of this schoo