Palinode (3 syl.), a poem in recantation of a calumny. Stesich´oros wrote a bitter satire against Helen, for which her brothers, Castor and Pollux, plucked out his eyes. When, however, the poet recanted, his sight was restored to him again.
The bard who libelled Helen in his song,
Recanted after, and redressed the wrong.
Ovid, Art of Love, iii.
Horace’s Ode, xvi. i. is a palinode. Samuel Butler has a palinode, in which he recanted what he said in a previous poem of the Hon. Edward Howard. Dr. Watts recanted in a poem the praise he had previously bestowed on Queen Anne.
Palinu´rus, the pilot of Æne´as. Palinurus, sleeping at the helm, fell into the sea and was drowned. The name is employed as a generic word for a steersman or pilot, and sometimes for a chief minister. Thus, Prince Bismarck might have been called the palinurus of William, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia.
More had she spoke, but yawned. All nature nods ...
E’en Palinurus nodded at the helm.
Pope, The Dunciad, iv. 614 (1742).
Palisse (La), a sort of M. Prudhomme; a pompous utterer of truisms and moral platitudes.
Palissy (Bernard, the potter), succeeded, after innumerable efforts and privations, in inventing the art of enamelling stone ware. He was arrested and confined in the Bastille for Huguenot principles, and died there in 1589.
Palla´dio (Andrea), the Italian classical architect (1518-1580).
The English Palladio, Inigo Jones (1573-1653).