brother of Queen Dido, [262].
Pyg´mies, nation of dwarfs, at war with the Cranes, [128].
Py´la-des, son of Straphius, friend of Orestes, [234].
Pyr´a-mus, who loved Thisbe, next-door neighbor, and, their parents opposing, they talked through cracks in the house-wall, agreeing to meet in the near-by woods; where Pyramus, finding a bloody veil and thinking Thisbe slain, killed himself, and she, seeing his body, killed herself. (Burlesqued in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”), [23]-[26].
Pyr´rha, wife of Deucalion (which See), [16]-[17].
Pyr´rhus (Neoptolemus), son of Achilles, [232].
Py-thag´o-ras, Greek philosopher (540 b.c.), who thought numbers to be the essence and principle of all things, and taught transmigration of souls of the dead into new life as human or animal beings, [288].
Pyth´i-a, priestess of Apollo at Delphi, [297].
Pyth´i-an Oracle, [84].