Part 74 (2/2)

”Whom is he called after!” said Scott. ”It is a fancy name,” said Young: ”in memoriam of his mother, Julia Ann.” ”Well, it is a capital name for a novel, I must say,” he replied. In the very next novel by the author of _Waverley_, the hero's name is ”Julian.” I allude, of course, to _Peveril of the Peak_.--J. Young, _Memoirs_, 91.

=Peveril of the Peak=, the hero of Sir W. Scott's novel of that name (1823).

=Peyton= (_Dunwoodie_), fine young fellow, major in the American army, and in love with Frances Wharton. Yet, when forced to choose between marrying her at once or doing his duty in keeping her brother under arrest, he plays the man of honor and true soldier. After many vicissitudes he becomes the husband of Frances.

_Peyton_ (_Miss Jeannette_), sister-in-law to Mr. Wharton, relative of Major Dunwoodie, and affectionate guardian of her nieces. A warm friend of Dr. Sitgreaves, the American surgeon.--James Fennimore[TN-87] Cooper, _The Spy_.

=Phaedra=, daughter of Minos, and wife of Theseus. (See PHEDRE.)

_Phaedra_, waiting-woman of Alcme'na (wife of Amphit'ryon). A type of venality of the lowest and grossest kind. Phaedra is betrothed to Judge Gripus, a stupid magistrate, ready to sell justice to the highest bidder. Neither Phaedra nor Gripus forms any part of the _dramatis personae_ of Moliere's _Amphitryon_ (1668).--Dryden, _Amphitryon_ (1690).

=Phaedria=, the impersonation of wantonness. She is handmaid of the enchantress Acrasia, and sails about Idle Lake in a gondola. Seeing Sir Guyon, she ferries him across the lake to the floating island, where he is set upon by Cymoch'les. Phaedria interposes, and ferries Sir Guyon (the Knight Temperance) over the lake again.--Spenser, _Faery Queen_, ii. (1590).

=Pha'eton= (3 _syl._), son, of Helios and Clymene. He obtained leave to drive his father's sun-car for one day, but was overthrown, and nearly set the world on fire. Jove or Zeus (1 _syl._) struck him with a thunderbolt for his presumption, and cast him into the river Po.

=Phal'aris=, tyrant of Agrigentum, in Sicily. When Perillos, the bra.s.s-founder of Athens, brought to him a brazen bull, and told the tyrant it was intended for the punishment of criminals, Phalaris inquired into its merits. Perillos said the victim was to be enclosed in the bull, and roasted alive, by making the figure red hot. Certain tubes were so constructed as to make the groans of the victim resemble the bellowings of a mad bull. The tyrant much commended the ingenuity, and ordered the invention to be tried on Perillos himself.

_Letters of Phalaris_, certain apocryphal letters ascribed to Phalaris, the tyrant, and published at Oxford, in 1718, by Charles Boyle. There was an edition in 1777 by Walckenaer; another in 1823, by G. H. Schaefer, with notes by Boyle and others. Bentley maintained that the letters were forgeries, and no doubt Bentley was right.

=Phallas=, the horse of Heraclius (Greek, _phalios_, ”a grey horse.”).

=Pha'on=, a young man who loved Claribel, but being told that she was unfaithful to him, watched her. He saw, as he thought, Claribel holding an a.s.signation with some one he supposed to be a groom. Returning home, he encountered Claribel herself, and ”with wrathfull hand he slew her innocent.” On the trial for murder, ”the lady” was proved to be Claribel's servant. Phaon would have slain her also, but while he was in pursuit of her he was attacked by Furor.--Spenser, _Faery Queen_, ii. 4, 28, etc. (1590).

? Shakespeare's _Much Ado about Nothing_ is a similar story. Both are taken from a novel by Belleforest, copied from one by Bandello. Ariosto, in his _Orlando Furioso_, has introduced a similar story (bk. v.), and Turbervil's _Geneura_ is the same tale.

=Pharamond=, king of the Franks, who visited, _incognito_, the court of King Arthur, to obtain by his exploits a place among the knights of the Round Table. He was the son of Marcomir, and father of Clodion.

Calprenede has an heroic romance so called, which (like his _Cleopatra and Ca.s.sandra_) is a _Roman de Longue Haleine_ (1612-1666).

_Pharamond_, prince of Spain, in the drama called _Philaster_, or _Love Lies a-bleeding_, by Beaumont and Fletcher (date uncertain, probably about 1662).

=Pharaoh=, the t.i.tular name of all the Egyptian kings till the time of Solomon, as the Roman emperors took the t.i.tular name of Caesar. After Solomon's time, the t.i.tular name Pharaoh never occurs alone, but only as a forename, as Pharaoh Necho, Pharaoh Hophra, Pharaoh s.h.i.+shak. After the division of Alexander's kingdom, the kings of Egypt were all called Ptolemy, generally with some distinctive after-name, as Ptolemy Philadelphos, Ptolemy Euergetes, Ptolemy Philopator, etc.--Selden, _t.i.tles of Honor_, v. 50 (1614).

_Pharaohs before Solomon_ (mentioned in the Old Testament):

1. Pharaoh contemporary with Abraham (_Gen._ xii. 15). This may be Osirtesen I. (dynasty xii.).

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