Palma, a governor of Syria.
Palmaria, a small island opposite Tarracina in Latium. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 6.
Palmȳra, the capital of Palmyrene, a country on the eastern boundaries of Syria, now called Theudemor, or Tadmor. It is famous for being the seat of the celebrated Zenobia and Odenatus, in the reign of the emperor Aurelian. It is now in ruins, and the splendour and magnificence of its porticoes, temples, and palaces, are now frequently examined by the curious and the learned. Pliny, bk. 6, chs. 26 & 30.
Palphurius, one of the flatterers of Domitian. Juvenal, satire 4, li. 53.
Palumbinum, a town of Samnium. Livy, bk. 10, ch. 45.
Pamīsos, a river of Thessaly, falling into the Peneus. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 129.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 8.——Another of Messenia in Peloponnesus.
Pammēnes, an Athenian general, sent to assist Megalopolis against the Mantineans, &c.——An astrologer.——A learned Grecian, who was preceptor to Brutus. Cicero, Brutus, ch. 97, Orator, ch. 9.
Pammon, a son of Priam and Hecuba. Apollodorus.
Pampa, a village near Tentyra in Thrace. Juvenal, satire 15, li. 76.
Pamphĭlus, a celebrated painter of Macedonia in the age of Philip, distinguished above his rivals by a superior knowledge of literature, and the cultivation of those studies which taught him to infuse more successfully grace and dignity into his pieces. He was founder of the school for painting at Sicyon, and he made a law which was observed not only in Sicyon, but all over Greece, that none but the children of noble and dignified persons should be permitted to learn painting. Apelles was one of his pupils. Diogenes Laërtius.——A son of Neoclides, among the pupils of Plato. Diogenes Laërtius.