given by
Ovid in his _Metamorphoses_, xiv. Euripid[^e]s introduces the monster in
his _Cyclops_; and the tragedy of Acis and Galatea is the subject of
Handel's famous opera so called.

(In Greek the monster is called _Polyph[^e]mos_, and in Latin
_Polyph[=e]mus_.)

=Polyphe'mus of Literature=, Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784).

=Polypho'nus= ("_big voiced_"), the Kap[)a]neus and most boastful of the
frog heroes. He was slain by the mouse Artoph[)a]gus ("the
bread-nibbler").

But great Artophagus avenged the slain, ...
And Polyph[=o]nus died, a frog renowned
For boastful speech and turbulence of sound.

Parnell, _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, iii. (about 1712).

=Polyx'ena=, a magnanimous and most noble woman, wife of Charles Emmanuel,
king of Sardinia (who succeeded to the crown in 1730).--R. Browning,
_King Victor and King Charles, etc._

=Pomegranate Seed.= When Perseph'on[^e] was in Had[^e]s, whither Pluto
had carried her, the god, foreknowing that Jupiter would demand her
release, gathered a pomegranate, and said to her, "Love, eat with me,
this parting day, of the pomegranate seed;" and she ate. Dem[=e]ter, in
the mean time, implored Zeus (_Jupiter_) to demand Persephon[^e]'s
release; and the king of Olympus promised she should be set at liberty,
if she had not eaten anything during her detention in Had[^e]s. As,
however, she had eaten pomegranate seeds, her return was impossible.

Low laughs the dark king on his throne--
"I gave her of pomegranate seeds" ...

And chant the maids of Enna still--
"O fateful flower beside the rill,
The daffodil, the daffodil." (See DAFFODIL.)

Jean Ingelow, _Persephone_.

=Pomoma.= The incomparable maid-of-work, custodian, novelist, comedienne,
tragedienne, and presiding genius of Rudder Grange. Her _chef d'oeuvre_
is the expedient of posting the premises "_To be Sold for Taxes_," to
keep away peddlers of trees, etc., in her employers' absence.--Frank
Stockton, _Rudder Grange_ (1879).

=Pompey=, a clown; servant to Mrs. Overdone (a bawd).--Shakespeare,
_Measure for Measure_ (1603).

=Pompey the Great=, was killed by Achillas and Septimius, the moment the
Egyptian fishing-boat reached the coast. Plutarch tells us they threw
his head into the sea. Others say his head was sent to Caesar, who turned
from it with horror, and shed a flood of tears. Shakespeare makes him
killed by "savage islanders" (2 _Henry VI._ act iv