Poisonous Herbs, see Circe.
Poisonous Lake, see Avernus.
Poll′ear. Son of Siva, the Hindoo god of wisdom.
Pol′lux. Twin brother of Castor. Their father was Jupiter and their mother Leda. He and his brother form the constellation Gemini. His Greek name was Polydeuces. See Ædepol.
Polybo′tes. One of the giants who made war against Jupiter.
Polydec′tes was turned into stone when Perseus showed him Medusa’s head. See Perseus.
Polydeu′ces. The Greek name of Pollux.
Polyhym′nia. Daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. One of the Muses who presided over singing and rhetoric.
Polyphe′mus, one of the most celebrated of the Cyclopes, a son of Neptune. He captured Ulysses and twelve of his companions, and it is said that six of them were eaten. The rest escaped by the ingenuity of Ulysses, who destroyed the Cyclop’s one eye with a firebrand.
“Charybdis barks and Polyphemus roars.”