Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate.
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Night soon will seize, and you must go below,
To story’d ghosts and Pluto’s house below.”
Creech.
Plu′tus, the god of riches, was son of Jason and Ceres. He is described as being blind and lame; blind because he so often injudiciously bestows his riches, and lame because fortunes come so slowly.
Plu′vius. A name of Jupiter, because he had the rain in his control.
Podalir′ius. A famous surgeon, a son of Æsculapius, who was very serviceable amongst the soldiers in the Trojan war.
Poet, see Parnassus.
Poetry, see Apollo, Calliope, The Muses.