Paulus, Lucius Aemilius, consul (216), defeated and slain at Cannae, [i, 114].
[Paulus;] Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, son of the preceding; in his second consulship he conquered Perseus of Macedon at Pydna (168) and enriched Rome with spoils, [ii, 76]; the father of the younger Africanus, [i, 116], [121.]
Pausanias, king of Sparta, commander-in-chief of the forces of Greece at Plataea (479) to the glory of Sparta, [i, 76].
Peloponnesian War, the death-struggle of Athens with Sparta (431-404), [i, 84].
Peloponnesus, the lower peninsula of Greece, in which Sparta was the chief city, [i, 84].
[Pelops], son of Tantalus and king of Mycenae, father of Atreus and Thyestes, [iii, 84].
[Pennus], Marcus Junius; as tribune (126) he secured a law expelling all foreigners from Rome, [iii, 47].
Pericles, the peerless statesman of Athens, [ii, 16]; philosopher, friend of Anaxagoras and Socrates; orator of mighty power, serious and deep, [i, 108]; general, [i, 144]; his administration made Athens unequalled in the splendour of her public buildings, [ii, 60].
Peripatetics, followers of Aristotle ([q.v.]), empiricists, [ii, 16]; students of exact science; lack the poetry and eloquence of Plato but not very different from the New Academy, [i, 2]; [iii, 20]; followers of Socrates and Plato, [i, 2]; their right to teach ethics, [i, 6]; seek the golden mean, [i, 89]; moral rectitude the supreme good, [iii, 11]; moral wrong the supreme evil, [iii, 106]; young Cicero their follower, [i, 1]; [ii, 8].